Yao, David D. (姚大衛)

	Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management MSc, PhD (University of Toronto) FIEEE
	Office:	Room 810B, William M.W. Mong Engineering Building
	Phone:	(852) 2609-8308
	E-mail:	yao@se.cuhk.edu.hk

In addition to his current position at CUHK, David D. Yao has been (since 1992) the Thomas Alva Edison Professor at Columbia University (New York, USA), where he started his career in 1983 and became a full Professor in 1988. In addition, he was Associate Professor of Systems Engineering at Harvard University (1986-88) and Visiting Professor of Operations Research at Yale University (1991/92). Since 1989, he has held a part-time appointment at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.

Professor Yao is an IEEE Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of the (U.S.) Presidential Young Investigator Award and several awards from IBM Research.

Author/co-author of over 120 refereed publications and several books, he currently serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals, including Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Operations Research, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, and Queueing Systems.

He has been listed in several major biographical references, including Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and American Men and Women of Science. A principal investigator of numerous grants and contracts, he has done extensive research and consulting work in various aspects of semiconductor manufacturing, operating systems scheduling, and network management, and is a holder of several patents in manufacturing logistics.

Research Interests

  Internet Performance Analysis and Optimization
  Queues and Queueing Networks
  Stochastic Models
  Supply Chain Logistics
  Telecommunication, Manufacturing and Financial Applications

Recent Publications (Partial)

J. Chen, D.D. Yao and S. Zheng, "Quality Control For Products Supplied with Warranty". Operations Research, 46, 107-115, 1998.

P. Glasserman, and D.D. Yao, "Subadditivity and Stability of a Class of Discrete-Event Systems". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 40, 1514-1527, 1995.

H. Chen, and D.D. Yao, "Dynamic Scheduling Control of a Multi-Class Fluid Network". Operations Research, 41, 1104-1115, 1993.

C.S. Chang and D.D. Yao, "Rearrangement, Majorization, and Stochastic Scheduling". Mathematics of Operations Research, 18, 658-684, 1993.

G. Gallego, D.D. Yao and I. Moon, "Optimal Control of a Production Process with Trial Runs". Management Science, 39, 1499-1505, 1993.

P. Glasserman, and D.D. Yao, "Generalized Semi-Markov Processes: Antimatroid Structure and Second Order Properties". Mathematics of Operations Research, 17, 444-469, 1992.

D.D. Yao, "On Wolff's PASTA Martingale". Operations Research, 40, 352-355, 1992.

J.G. Shanthikumar, and D.D. Yao, "Multiclass Queueing Systems: Polymatroid Structure and Optimal Scheduling Control". Operations Research, 40, 293-299, 1992.

H. Chen, and D.D. Yao, "A Fluid Model for Systems with Random Disruptions". Operations Research, 40, 239-247, 1992.

K.W. Ross and D.D. Yao, " Optimal Load Balancing and Scheduling in a Distributed Computer System". Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 38, 676-690, 1991.