Tony F. Chan
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Tony Fan-Cheong Chan (Chinese: 陳繁昌) is a Chinese American mathematician[2] who has been serving as President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) since 2018.[3] Prior that, he was President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2009 to 2018.[4]
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3rd President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | |
Assumed office 1 September 2018 | |
Preceded by | Jean-Lou Chameau Nadhmi Al-Nasr (interim) |
3rd President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
In office 1 September 2009 – 31 August 2018 | |
Chancellor | Donald Tsang Leung Chun-ying Carrie Lam |
Deputy | Roland Chin[lower-alpha 1] Wei Shyy[lower-alpha 2] |
Preceded by | Paul Chu |
Succeeded by | Wei Shyy[1] |
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Born | (1952-01-20) 20 January 1952 (age 72) British Hong Kong |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Salesian English School Queen's College California Institute of Technology (BS, MS) Stanford University (PhD) |
Known for | Mathematics for image processing |
Awards | NAE (2014) IEEE Fellow (2016) |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science and mathematics |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Comparison of numerical methods for initial value problems (1978) |
Doctoral advisor | Joseph E. Oliger |
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Traditional Chinese | 陳繁昌 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 陈繁昌 | ||||||||||
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In June 2017, Chan announced his early resignation in September 2018 from HKUST.[5] In January 2018, HKUST announced Wei Shyy 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.[6][7] On 31 August 2018, Chan formally left his position as president following ten years of tenure.