Bio:
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a professor and dean of the Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His research interests include analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, cryptography, and quantum computing. From 1975 to 1986, Professor Yao was a faculty member at MIT, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley He was the William and Edna Macaleer professor of engineering and applied science at Princeton University from 1986 to 2004, at which point, he left Princeton to become a professor of computer science at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also a Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Yao’s research interest include the theory of computation and its application in cryptography and quantum computing, and has made research contributions in three ways: creation of important subfields for theoretical computer science; helping to develop the foundations of modern cryptography; and resolving open problems and establishing new paradigms in circuit complexity, computational geometry, data structures, and quantum computing. He was recipient of the A M Turing Award in 2000 for his contributions to the theory of computation, including communication complexity, pseudorandom number generation, and quantum communication. His numerous other honors and awards include the George Polya Prize, the Donald E Knuth Prize, and several honorary degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the City University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the University of Waterloo. Professor Yao is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in physics from Harvard University, a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, and a BS in Physics from National Taiwan University.
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Presentation Title: Quantum Computing: A Great Science in the Making
Abstract:
In recent years, the scientific world has seen much excitement over the development of quantum computing, and the ever increasing possibility of building real quantum computers. What’s the advantage of quantum computing? What are the secrets in the atoms that could potentially unleash such enormous power, to be used for computing and information processing? In this talk, we will take a look at quantum computing, and make the case that we are witnessing a great science in the making.
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