Timothy M. Chan (born 1976) is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where he currently holds a University Research Chair. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their The University of Waterloo (also referred to as UW and Waterloo) is a comprehensive Public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario
He graduated with BA (summa cum laude) from Rice University in 1992 and completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at UBC in 1995. Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an Academic degree was earned William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters Science and Art Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their The University of British Columbia ( UBC) is a Canadian public research University with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995
He has won the Governor General's Gold Medal (as Head of Graduating Class in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at UBC), the NSERC Doctoral Prize, and the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) of Ontario, Canada. The Governor General's Academic Medal is awarded to the student graduating with the highest grade point average from a Canadian high school college or university program The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC is a Canadian government division that provides grants for research in the Natural sciences Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page
His research focuses on computational geometry. Computational geometry is a branch of Computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of Geometry. Among his many contributions, he is best known for his algorithm on convex hull (often referred to as Timothy Chan's Algorithm or simply Chan's Algorithm). In Mathematics, Computing, Linguistics and related subjects an algorithm is a sequence of finite instructions often used for Calculation In Mathematics, the convex hull or convex envelope for a set of points X in a Real Vector space V is the minimal Convex In Computational geometry, Chan's algorithm is an optimal Output-sensitive algorithm to compute the Convex hull of a set P of n points He has given a number of invited lectures, notably in DIMACS, MSRI, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and more recently in the NHC Workshops of Japan. The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS is a collaboration between Rutgers and Princeton Universities and the research firms The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI, founded in 1982, is a mathematical research institution whose funding sources include the National The Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII is devoted to cutting-edge research in Computer science with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
He serves as Associate Editor for International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications as well as ACM Transactions on Algorithms. He is also on the editorial board of the following journals: Discrete & Computational Geometry, and Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications.
External links
- SoCG 2008
- ACM Transactions on Algorithms Editorial Board
- DBLP: Timothy M. Chan. DBLP ( Digital Bibliography & Library Project) is a Computer science Bibliography website hosted at Universität Trier, in Germany
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