Frances Yao

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Who is Frances Yao?

Frances Foong Yao is a Chinese-born American computer scientist. She was Chair Professor and Head of the Department of computer science at the City University of Hong Kong.

From Harzing Publish or Perish, she has a total of 1861 citations. Her top paper which has 213 citations was co-authored with MS Paterson, entitled "Efficient binary space partitions for hidden-surface removal and solid modeling

After receiving a B.S. in mathematics from National Taiwan University in 1969, Yao did her Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Michael J. Fischer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving her Ph.D. in 1973. She then held positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brown University, and Stanford University, before joining the staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1979 where she stayed until her retirement in 1999.

In 2003, she came out of retirement to become the Head and a Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science at City University, which she held until June 2011. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; in 1991, she and Ronald Graham won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America for their expository article, A Whirlwind Tour of Computational Geometry.

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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