Frances Yao

Frances Yao
Frances Yao
儲楓
Spouse	Andrew Yao
Academic background
Alma mater	National Taiwan University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Michael J. Fischer
Academic work
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,; Brown University, ; Stanford University, ; Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, ; City University of Hong Kong, ; Tsinghua University

Frances Foong Chu Yao (Chinese: 儲楓; pinyin: Chǔ Fēng) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. She is currently a Chair Professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) of Tsinghua University. She was Chair Professor and Head of the Department of computer science at the City University of Hong Kong, where she is now an honorary professor.^[1]