Tony F. Chan
Tony F. Chan | |
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陳繁昌 | |
Tony Chan in 1988 | |
| 3rd President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | |
| In office 1 September 2018 – 30 August 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Jean-Lou Chameau Nadhmi Al-Nasr (interim) |
| Succeeded by | Ed Byrne |
| 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 Wei Shyy |
| Preceded by | Paul Chu |
| Succeeded by | Wei Shyy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 January 1952 British Hong Kong |
| Education | California Institute of Technology (BS, MS) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Known for | Mathematics for image processing |
| Awards | NAE (2014) IEEE Fellow (2016) |
| 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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Tony Fan-Cheong Chan (Chinese: 陳繁昌; born 20 January 1952) is a Hong Kong mathematician who served as the 3rd president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia from September 2018 to August 2024. He previously served as 3rd president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from September 2009 to October 2018. Chan has been a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles since 2009.