Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (born December 24, 1946) is a prominent computer scientist.He received the Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, in 2000, "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity".
Yao was born in Shanghai, China. He completed his undergraduate education in physics at the National Taiwan University, before completing a PhD in physics at Harvard University in 1972, and then a second PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois.
He is now a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he continues to work on algorithms and complexity.
