From 2002 to 2011, Yau also served as the Zi-Jiang Professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai, as well as Director of the university's Institute of Mathematics.[3] After retiring from UIC in 2012, he joined Tsinghua University as a full-time professor.[4]
Research
Among Yau's research interests are bioinformatics, complex algebraic geometry, singularities theory, and nonlinear filtering.[4] He published nearly 300 papers and established the "Yau algebra" and the "Yau number".[5] He served as Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Control and Information and co-founded the Journal of Algebraic Geometry in 1991. He founded the journal Communications in Information and Systems in 2000, and has served as Editor-in-Chief since its inception.[4]