Tao Yang (Teoma)
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Tao Yang is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Ask.com for web search. He is a tenured full professor in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Yang co-ran research and development of Teoma search engine with Apostolos Gerasoulis from its earlier startup stage in 2000 and at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) for Teoma web search after it acquired Teoma in 2001. Teoma has been the backend search engine for Ask.com since December 2001, competing with other search engines such as Google and Yahoo!.
He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University in 1993. He specializes in parallel and distributed systems, Internet search, and parallel scientific computing. He has co-authored over eighty journal and conference papers.
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