Yuanyuan Yang
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Yuanyuan Yang is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose interests include parallel and distributed computing, wireless sensor networks, and cloud computing. She is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Stony Brook University, Associate Dean for Diversity and Academic Affairs in the Stony Brook College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.[1] From 2018 - 2022, she was a program director for software and hardware foundations and principles and practice of scalable systems at the National Science Foundation.[2] [3]
Yang earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and engineering at Tsinghua University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at Johns Hopkins University in 1992.[4] She moved to Stony Brook in 1999, from a previous faculty position at the University of Vermont.[1]
