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.

Together with Apostolos Gerasoulis, Yang ran research and development of the Teoma search engine from its startup stage in 2000 and after it was acquired by Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) 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!.

Yang 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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