Timothy M. Chan

Timothy Moon-Yew Chan is a Founder 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. 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'' and the ''International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications''. He is also a member of the editorial board of ''Algorithmica'', ''Discrete & Computational Geometry'', and ''Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications''.

Chan has published extensively. His research covers data structures, algorithms, and computational geometry. Provided by Wikipedia