姚期智

繁體中文

姚期智（Andrew Chi-Chih Yao）1946年12月24日生於上海，係世界著名計算機科學家，2000年圖靈獎（電腦科學最高榮譽）得主，亦係中國科學院院士、美國國家科學院外籍院士、美國藝術與科學院外籍院士同國際密碼學研究會會士。姚期智1967年畢業於台灣大學物理學系，1972年獲哈佛大學物理學博士學位。佢嘅研究領域包括計算理論、密碼學、量子計算同通訊複雜度。佢最先提出量子通訊複雜度理論，對計算機科學發展有重大貢獻。姚期智曾任教於史丹福大學、麻省理工學院同普林斯頓大學。2004年，佢離開普林斯頓大學出任清華大學計算機科學教授，之後創辦清華大學計算機科學實驗班（姚班）、理論計算機科學研究中心、交叉信息研究院同量子信息中心。2005年起，佢擔任香港中文大學博文講座教授。2017年，姚期智放棄美國國籍成為中國公民，正式轉為中國科學院院士。佢亦係香港科學院創院院士。姚期智培養咗大批優秀嘅計算機科學人才，對中國同香港嘅資訊科技發展有深遠影響。

English

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (born 24 December 1946, Shanghai) is a world-renowned computer scientist and winner of the 2000 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. Yao graduated from National Taiwan University with a BSc in Physics in 1967 and earned a PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1972. He taught at Stanford, MIT, and Princeton before joining Tsinghua University in 2004, where he founded the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences and the renowned Yao Class. Since 2005, he has also been the Bo Wen Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He renounced US citizenship in 2017 and became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.