Chen-Ning Yang is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and an ACM Fellow. His research interests are in computational complexity theory, computational geometry, algorithmics, graph algorithms, computational physics, and machine learning. He has published over sixty papers in top-tier journals such as ACM Transactions on Computation Theory (TOPLAS), SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), SIAM Review (SR), Journal of the ACM (JACM), Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (CPAM), AIAA Journal (AIAA), Proceedings of the IEEE (PRI), Communications of the ACM (CACM) and Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). He was an Associate Editor for JACM from 2005 to 2014
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He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1986 under the supervision of Daniel F. Bobrow, James N.
Atchley and David S. Touretzky; he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Berkeley before joining the faculty of UC Berkeley in 1988.