Pyyan / People / Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
Won the 2000 Turing Award for complexity theory and cryptography, then left Princeton for Tsinghua and built an undergraduate programme whose alumni founded a striking share of China's AI companies.
Known for
Turing Award 2000Yao's principleYao Class
2 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 2004–now22 yrsTsinghua UniversityDean, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
- 1986–200418 yrsPrinceton UniversityProfessor
0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first
No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.
LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.
Taughtstudents and postdocs
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