Timothy M. Chan

Timothy Chan at SoCG 2011

Timothy Moon-Yew Chan is Professor and University Research Chair[1] 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.

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,[2] and the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) of Ontario, Canada.

He is currently an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG),[3] and the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.[4] He is also a member of the editorial board of Algorithmica,[5] Discrete and Computational Geometry,[6] as well as Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications.[7]

Chan has published extensively. His research covers Data Structures, Algorithms and Computational geometry.[8]

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References

  1. Award winning professors and graduate students, U. Waterloo, Faculty of Mathematics, retrieved January 16, 2009.
  2. 1997 Doctoral Prize: Dr. Timothy Moon-Yew Chan. NSERC, June 11, 2006. Web page retrieved January 10, 2009.
  3. ACM Transaction On Algorithms, retrieved April 24, 2010.
  4. International Journal of Computational Geoemtry Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010.
  5. Algorithmica Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010.
  6. Discrete and Computational Geometry Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010.
  7. Computational Geometry:Theory and Applications Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010.
  8. Publications listed in DBLP: Timothy M. Chan, retrieved August 17, 2010.

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