1. Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho is a Chinese-American mathematician, control theorist, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
11 Facts About Yu-Chi Ho
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Yu-Chi Ho is the co-author of Applied Optimal Control, and an influential researcher in differential games, pattern recognition, and discrete event dynamic systems.
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Yu-Chi Ho was born on March 1,1934, in Shanghai, China, and left home at the age of 15 in 1949 to complete his high school education in Hong Kong.
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Yu-Chi Ho's thesis A Study of the Optimal Control of Dynamic Systems was advised by Arthur E Bryson, Jr.
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Yu-Chi Ho was the visiting professor to the Cockrell Family Regent's Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin in 1989.
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Yu-Chi Ho was appointed the Chair Professor and Chief Scientist at the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University.
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Yu-Chi Ho is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Yu-Chi Ho is on the editorial boards of several international journals and is the founding editor-in-chief of the international Journal on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.
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Yu-Chi Ho was the founder and the first chair of the annual United Asian American Dinner of Massachusetts.
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Yu-Chi Ho's research in control theory began when he was a graduate student at MIT.
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Yu-Chi Ho's paper Nonzero Sum Differential Games was an influential game-theoretic study in systems and control, following earlier work by Samuel Karlin, for example.