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Scientist and Principal Engineer
DAMO Academy (USA)
Dr. Wotao Yin is a scientist and principal engineer at Alibaba DAMO Academy, also the director of its Decision Intelligence Lab. Prior to joining DAMO Academy, he was a professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA, where he made many contributions to the theory and applications of distributed computing, optimization algorithms, machine learning, and image processing. He has received the NSF CAREER Award, the Sloan Research Award, the Morningstar Medal in Applied Mathematics, the DAMO Award, and the Egon Balas Award. Since 2018, Clarivate has listed him as one of the world’s 1% highly cited scholars.