Timothy M. Chan

Timothy Chan at SoCG 2011

Timothy Moon-Yew Chan is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was formerly Professor and University Research Chair 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.

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, 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

References

  1. ↑ Two CS faculty among five new Founder professors, U. Illinois, retrieved January 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ Award winning professors and graduate students, U. Waterloo, Faculty of Mathematics, retrieved January 16, 2009.
  3. ↑ 1997 Doctoral Prize: Dr. Timothy Moon-Yew Chan. NSERC, June 11, 2006. Web page retrieved January 10, 2009.
  4. ↑ 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11

Chan's web site at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign