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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Position

Dean,Professor

Research Interests

Algorithms, Cryptography, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence

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EDUCATION BACKGROUND

National Taiwan University, B.S., Physics, 1967.
Harvard University, Ph.D., Physics, 1972.
University of Illinois, Ph.D., Computer Science, 1975.

WORK EXPERIENCES

Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (September 1975 to August 1976)

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University (September 1976 to August 1981)

Professor, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley (September 1981 to September 1982)

Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University (October 1982 to June 1986)

William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University (July 1986 to  June 2004)

Professor, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University (September 2004 to present)

Distinguished Professor-At-Large, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (January 2005 to present)

Dean, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University (January 2011 to present)


AWARDS

George Polya Prize, 1987

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1991

Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, 1995

Donald E. Knuth Prize, 1996

Member, US National Academy of Sciences, 1998

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000

A.M. Turing Award, 2000

Member, Academia Sinica, 2000

Pan Wen-Yuan Research Award, 2003

Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, City University of Hong Kong, 2003

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003

Doctor of Engineering, Honoris Causa, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004

Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004

Alumni Award for Distinguished Service, College of Engineering, University of Illinois, 2004

Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006

Doctor of Mathematics, Honoris Causa, University of Waterloo, 2009

International Association for Cryptologic Research Fellow (IACR), 2010

Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, University of Macau, 2012

Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2014

Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016

Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Macau University of Science and Technology, 2019

Kyoto Prize, 2021

Recent Publications