David D. Yao
Professor Yao's research and teaching interests are in operations research, applied probability, stochastic systems, and financial engineering/technology. Author/co-author of over 200 scientific publications, he has been a principal investigator of over thirty grants and contracts from government agencies and industrial sources, and a holder of eight U.S. patents. His research and scholarly accomplishments have led to numerous honors and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Franz Edelman Award from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from IBM Research, and the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. He is an IEEE Fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.