Timothy Moon-Yew Chan is a Founder

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Two CS faculty among five new Founder professors
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at the

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. He was formerly Professor and University Research ChairAward winning professors and graduate students
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. He graduated with BA (

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) from

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in 1992, and completed his Ph.D. in

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in 1995 at the age of 19. His late mother, Miu Yung Chan, was a molecular physicist with a Ph.D. from

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. He is currently an associate editor for ''

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International Journal of Computational Geometry Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010. He is also a member of the editorial board of ''

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Algorithmica Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010. '' Discrete and Computational Geometry, Discrete & Computational Geometry'',
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Computational Geometry:Theory and Applications Editorial Board, retrieved April 24, 2010. Chan has published extensively. His research covers

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, 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

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doctoral prize,1997 Doctoral Prize: Dr. Timothy Moon-Yew Chan

, June 11, 2006. Web page retrieved January 10, 2009. and the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) of

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. He was elected as an

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in 2019 "for contributions to computational geometry, algorithms, and data structures".

References

External links

Chan's web site
at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign {{DEFAULTSORT:Chan, Timothy M. Living people University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Academic staff of the University of Waterloo Researchers in geometric algorithms Rice University alumni University of British Columbia Faculty of Science alumni 1976 births 2019 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery

Recognition

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