A computer scientist whose work with Danny Dolev includes the Dolev-Yao model of cryptographic protocols.
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Andrew Yao is a prominent Chinese-American computer scientist and mathematician, widely recognized for his contributions to theoretical computer science and information theory. He was born on November 30, 1946, in Shanghai, China. Yao is best known for the development of the "Yao's principle" and "Yao's cost model," as well as for his work on computational complexity, algorithms, randomness in computation, and cryptography.