At the age of 26, he received a double doctorate and became a professor at a famous university.
Yao Qizhi was born in Shanghai, 1946, and his ancestral home is Xiaogan, Hubei. Shortly after his birth, Yao Qizhi followed his parents to live in Taiwan Province. At school, he showed great interest in physics and often indulged in the research and study of physical knowledge. When he grew up, Yao Qizhi entered the Physics Department of Taiwan Province Provincial University and obtained a bachelor's degree in physics.
However, science is endless. Yao Qizhi, who yearned for science, was not satisfied with this, so he went to the Physics Department of Harvard University in the United States for further study and studied under Professor glashow, the Nobel Prize winner. At that time, Europe and America were holy places for international students. While studying abroad, Yao Qizhi successfully obtained a doctorate in physics. At this time, he was just 26 years old.
Yao Qizhi should have written his own chapter on the road of physics, but an accident in 1973 made him decide to turn to computer science and technology.
It was at a party that Yao Qizhi met his future wife, Chu Feng, a native of China who was studying for a doctorate in computer science at MIT. It was this encounter that brought Yao Qizhi into contact with the emerging computer science and technology. At that time, computers were all emerging disciplines in western developed countries. Yao Qizhi was keenly aware of this and decided to "jump ship".
So, Yao Qizhi got a postdoctoral degree in physics at Harvard, and Yao Qizhi went to the Computer Department of the University of Illinois to study for a doctorate in computer science, and completed all the courses in three years. At the age of 29, Yao Qizhi received a doctorate in physics and computer science, and was a top scholar.
In September this year, Yao Qizhi once again made a "cross-border" move and entered the Mathematics Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. Sure enough, excellent people are excellent in all aspects. A year later, Yao Qizhi finally started a "professional counterpart" job, teaching in the computer department of Stanford University. This teaching is 10 year.
Since then, Yao Qizhi has taught in many universities in the United States. For example, Princeton University, University of California and many other well-known universities warmly invited him to be a professor. Therefore, in his teaching career for several years, Yao Qizhi often traveled between universities. Later, Princeton University hired Yao Qizhi as a tenured professor.
Although Yao Qizhi has a lot of teaching work, it does not prevent him from doing academic research. Facts have proved that Yao Qizhi's achievements in computer science are of epoch-making significance.
During his teaching, Yao Qizhi demonstrated the complexity of randomization algorithm through research, and this principle is still an important computer research tool. 1993, Yao Qizhi put forward the complexity of quantum communication for the first time, and basically completed the theoretical foundation of quantum computer, which was a breakthrough.
Subsequently, he completed the research of cryptography, laid the foundation of modern cryptography, and made a breakthrough and fundamental contribution to complexity-based cryptography and security formalization methods. Prior to this, the field of computer science has been monopolized by western scientists. Although Yao Qizhi became a monk halfway through, he became a figure who broke this monopoly.
1995, Yao Qizhi proposed a distributed quantum computing model, which laid a good foundation for the future development of communication technology and achieved great economic benefits. Entering the new century in 2000, Yao Qizhi won the Turing Award, the highest honor award in the field of computer science. He is also the only scientist in China who has won this honor so far.
Go back to the mainland and train local scientific and technological talents for China.
The award-winning Yao Qizhi didn't publicize his achievements in a big way. In 2004, Yao Qizhi resigned as a tenured professor at Preston University and returned to China to teach in Tsinghua University. In his last class in the United States, he said to the students, "I will go back to China forever."
After entering Tsinghua University, Yao Qizhi became a full-time professor at the Advanced Research Center. In teaching, he has taught in America for many years. After comparing the computer teaching in the two countries, he combined his teaching experience with the current situation in China.
A new teaching method system is put forward. Later, he set up an experimental computer science class, which was taught by him personally, so it was called "Yao Ban". The students in this class are all elites.
Besides giving lectures in person, Yao Qizhi also invited many famous foreign professors to hold academic lectures and other exchange seminars. Tsinghua has a saying: "Tsinghua is half British in Yao Ban", which means that half of Tsinghua's talents are in Yao Ban. Although it is a little exaggerated, it is a high praise and evaluation of "Yao Ban".
Students who have come out of "Yao Ban" are highly competitive even internationally. Once, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University said frankly: "After receiving the applications from Yao Ban students, he will specifically pick them out. As long as the English level can reach the standard, he will basically accept them." But think about it, how many students in Tsinghua have short English?
It can be said that the students trained by Professor Yao Qizhi are all comparable to the top students in world-class universities, and have trained a large number of reserve talents for scientific research and education in China, making great contributions.
In addition to Professor Yao Qizhi's achievements in the computer field, Yao Qizhi has also made extraordinary achievements in the field of artificial intelligence. It is under his leadership that China's artificial intelligence field can rank among the top in the world and reach the leading level. In order to cultivate local talents in the field of artificial intelligence in China, Yao Qizhi established the "Intelligence Course", and later established the "Xiangzhi Research Institute" in Shanghai, focusing on the research of cutting-edge technologies.
Top talents from famous universities in China gather here to engage in the research of cutting-edge technology and innovative technology. Professor Yao has a grand wish for this: within 10 years, the research institute will step into the forefront of the world computer field and artificial intelligence research institute.
In 20 17, Professor Yao Qizhi, who was 7 1 year old, obtained China nationality, and then officially became an academician of China Academy of Sciences. In the past, his academician title was always preceded by the word "foreign", which seemed so strange and dazzling. Today, Academician Yao is over 70 years old, but he is still active in the front line of scientific research, determined to make greater progress in the computer field, which can be described as "an old horse crouching tiger, aiming for a thousand miles".
Academician Yao Qizhi can serve as a model for countless overseas China intellectuals. It is true that science knows no borders, but scientists have nationality. Over the years, overseas Chinese academicians have chosen to return to China, such as structural biologist Shi, molecular physiologist and physicist Duan. These are the pillars of the country and a solid force for the scientific development of China.