Tao Yang is a Chinese-American computer scientist. Yang is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of

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for web search. He is also a tenured professor in

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at the

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Biography

Yang received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League and is selected into the na ...

in 1984. In 1987, Yang received his M.E. degree in

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from Zhejiang University. Yang obtained his M.Sc in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1993 both in Computer Science from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

. 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 Apostolos Gerasoulis is a Greek professor of computer science at Rutgers University, and the co-creator of Teoma, an Internet search engine that powers Ask.com Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering–focused e-busine ...

, Yang ran research and development of the

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search engine from its startup stage in 2000 and after it was acquired by

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(now

) in 2001.

has been the backend search engine for

since December 2001, competing with other search engines such as

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and

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Awards

* 1994, Research Initiation Award, from United States

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* 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 {{Compu-bio-stub