Professor Tony Fan Cheong CHAN, JP
陳繁昌
FHKEng [2015]
President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
- Elected member, US National Academy of Engineering
- FIEEE
- Elected Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Member, American Mathematical Society
- Honorary Degree of Doctor, University of Strathclyde
- Member, Advisory Committee on Innovation and Technology, HKSAR Government
- Member, Board of Trustees, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology University in Saudi Arabia
- Member, President’s Advisory Council, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board, the University of Vienna
- Member, International Advisory Board of Academic Ranking of World Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Member, The United States Committee of 100
Professor Tony F Chanassumed the presidency of theHong Kong University of Science and Technology on 1 September 2009. From 2006-2009, Professor Chan was Assistant Director of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), which is the largest directorate at NSF.Professor Chan’s research interests include mathematical image processing and computer vision, Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) physical design and computational brain mapping. He has published over 200 refereed papers and was one of the most cited mathematicians in the world. He has mentored over 35 PhD students and 25 postdoctoral fellows.
President, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;Assistant Director of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the US National Science Foundation; Dean, Division of Physical Sciences, UCLA; Director, Institute for Pure and Applied Math(IPAM), UCLA; Chair, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
BSc(Eng)
MSc
Aeronautics
PhD
tonyfchan@gmail.com