Tao Yang is a Chinese-American computer scientist. Yang is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of
Ask.com for web search. He is also a tenured professor in
Computer Science at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Biography
Yang received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from
Zhejiang University in 1984. In 1987, Yang received his M.E. degree in
Artificial Intelligence from Zhejiang University. Yang obtained his M.Sc in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1993 both in Computer Science from
Rutgers University.
Yang joined the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993.
Tao Yang Homepage
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Research and business
Yang specializes in parallel and distributed systems, Internet search, and parallel scientific computing. He has co-authored over eighty journal and conference papers.
Together with Apostolos Gerasoulis, Yang ran research and development of the Teoma
Teoma (from Scottish Gaelic ''teòma'' "expert") was an Internet search engine founded in April 2000 by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis and his colleagues at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Professor Tao Yang from the University of California, Sa ...
search engine from its startup stage in 2000 and after it was acquired by Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) in 2001.
Teoma
Teoma (from Scottish Gaelic ''teòma'' "expert") was an Internet search engine founded in April 2000 by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis and his colleagues at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Professor Tao Yang from the University of California, Sa ...
has been the backend search engine for Ask.com since December 2001, competing with other search engines such as Google and Yahoo!.
Awards
* 1994, Research Initiation Award, from United States National Science Foundation (NSF)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...
* 1997, CAREER Award, from NSF
* 2002, Noble Jeeviant Award, from AskJeeves
References
External links
Home page at UCSB
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Zhejiang University alumni
Rutgers University alumni
Chinese computer scientists
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Chinese emigrants to the United States
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