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Tony F. Chan

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He is currently a member of the board of trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, President's Advisory Council of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Vienna, International Advisory Board of
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was appointed acting president to succeed Chan, who took over the remaining half year of Chan's tenure, as he left the university earlier for foreign exchanges aimed at helping prepare for HKUST's future construction of an innovation building. On 31 August 2018, Chan formally left his position as
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He is also a founding member of The Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong, the president of the Hong Kong Institution of Science, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences and a member of the advisory committee on Innovation and Technology of the Hong Kong Government.
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He was a member of the selection committee for the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences in 2012 and 2013. He is the chair of Nevanlinna Prize Committee for the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 (ICM 2018) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
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Fellow, a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on the editorial boards of many journals in mathematics and computing, including
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Academic Ranking of World Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, board of trustees of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia, RIKEN Advisory Council of Japan, and the United States Committee of 100.
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He was appointed chair of the Department of Mathematics in 1997 and served as dean of physical sciences from 2001 to 2006. He was one of the principal investigators who made the successful proposal to the NSF to form the
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from 2006 to 2009. He pursued postdoctoral research at Caltech as a research fellow, and taught computer science at Yale University before joining
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Took office as Deputy President and Provost; position later renamed as Executive Vice-President and Provost in 2013.
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in Hong Kong. Chan received his B.S. in Engineering and M.S. in Aeronautics (both with Honors) from the
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Fellow, 2016, "for contributions to computational models and algorithms for image processing".
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In June 2017, Chan announced his early resignation in September 2018 from
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He has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the
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Academic staff of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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Presidents of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Born in Hong Kong, Chan completed his secondary education at
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Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
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Comparison of numerical methods for initial value problems
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Honorary Doctorate, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2022.
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Honorary Doctorate, University of Strathclyde, UK, 2015.
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and serves on its inaugural editorial board till 2012.
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mathematician who has been serving as President of the
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Tony Chan

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Incumbent
Jean-Lou Chameau
Nadhmi Al-Nasr
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Donald Tsang
Leung Chun-ying
Carrie Lam
Roland Chin
Wei Shyy
Paul Chu
Wei Shyy
British Hong Kong
Alma mater
Salesian English School
Queen's College
California Institute of Technology
BS
MS
Stanford University
PhD
Mathematics
image processing
NAE
IEEE

Computer science
mathematics

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