Professor David D. Yao is the Piyasombatkul Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, where he is the founding chair of the Financial and Business Analytics Center at Columbia Data Science Institute. In addition, over the last fifteen years he has held part-time affiliations and special-term appointments with leading universities in Asia, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the City University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University.

His research and teaching interests are in operations research, applied probability and stochastic systems, focusing on resource control and risk analytics issues. Author/coauthor of some 200 scientific publications, he is 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, including the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Franz Edelman Award from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from IBM Research, Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates, and the IBM Faculty Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

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