Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, an internationally known computer scientist, recently won the Teaching Master award at Zhejiang University. The outstanding teaching award was given to five people, while the Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent award was given to 10 people. The awards were presented for the first time.

Yao, born in Shanghai in 1946, received the Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, in 2000. He resigned from Princeton University in 2004 and began working at Tsinghua University in Beijing as a full-time professor, where he continues to train international leading talent in computer science.

Yao has made many fundamental contributions to the theory of computation. The Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at Tsinghua University, which he established, has become a leading global computer research center.

In 2017, Yao gave up his foreign citizenship and became a full academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.