Yang is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Ask.com for web search.
He is also a tenured professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Yang joined the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993.
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.
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