Stephen Sik-Sang Yau
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Stephen Sik-Sang Yau (also known as Stephen Yau or S.S. Yau) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[1][2]
He was born on August 6, 1935, in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.[3] As a result of the Chinese Civil War, his family moved to Taiwan. He obtained a B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taipei in 1958 in electrical engineering. He arrived in the US to join University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1958, where he obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1961, where his advisor was Mac Van Valkenburg.
Academic career
In 1961, he joined Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. as a faculty member and later became the chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science there. During 1988–1994, he was with the Computer and Information Sciences Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He joined Arizona State University in 1994.[4] He served as the president of the IEEE Computer Society during 1974–1975.
His first research publication was in 1962. He has continued to be an active researcher as of 2022 at age 87, with a span of 60 years. His most recent research contributions are in blockchain.
