Timothy Moon-Yew Chan is a Founder ProfessorTwo CS faculty among five new Founder professors, U. Illinois, retrieved January 18, 2017. in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was formerly Professor and University Research ChairAward winning professors and graduate students, U. Waterloo, Faculty of Mathematics, retrieved January 16, 2009. in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.
He graduated with BA (summa cum laude) from Rice University in 1992, and completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at UBC in 1995 at the age of 19. His late mother, Miu Yung Chan, was a molecular physicist with a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
He is currently an associate editor for SIAM Journal on Computing SIAM Journal on Computing (SICOMP) Editorial Board, retrieved November 8, 2017 and the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. International Journal of Computational Geometry Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010. He is also a member of the editorial board of Algorithmica, Algorithmica Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010. Discrete & Computational Geometry, Discrete & Computational Geometry Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010. and Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications. Computational Geometry:Theory and Applications Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010.
Chan has published extensively. His research covers data structures, algorithms, and computational geometry. Publications listed in DBLP: Timothy M. Chan, retrieved August 17, 2010.
Recognition He was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal (as Head of Graduating Class in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia during convocation), the NSERC doctoral prize,1997 Doctoral Prize: Dr. Timothy Moon-Yew Chan. NSERC, June 11, 2006. Web page retrieved January 10, 2009. and the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) of Ontario, Canada.
He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to computational geometry, algorithms, and data structures".
See also Chan's algorithm, an output-sensitive algorithm for planar convex hulls
References
External links https://www.atremo.digital/disclosure
Chan's web site at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign