Tony F. Chan | |
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 Tony Chan in 1988 | |
| 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[a] Wei Shyy[b] |
| Preceded by | Paul Chu |
| Succeeded by | Wei Shyy[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 January 1952 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) |
| Signature |  |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science and mathematics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Comparison of numerical methods for initial value problems (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph E. Oliger |
| Tony Fan-Cheong Chan | |||||||||||
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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) 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 to that, he was President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2009 to 2018.[4]
In June 2017, Chan announced his early resignation in September 2018 from HKUST.[5] In January 2018, HKUST announced that Wei Shyy 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.[6][7] On 31 August 2018, Chan formally left his position as president following 10 years of tenure.
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- ^ "KUST Appoints Professor Shyy Wei As Fourth President". Asian Scientist. 19 January 2018.
- ^ "Biography of Prof Tony Chan, HKUST Designate" (PDF). March 2009.
- ^ Ellie Bothwell (1 May 2018). "Tony Chan appointed as next KAUST president: HKUST head to lead Saudi Arabian university from September". Times Higher Education.
- ^ "HKUST Announces Appointment of Prof. Tony Chan as Next President".
- ^ "Hong Kong University of Science and Technology president to step down early in September 2018". South China Morning Post. 10 June 2017.
- ^ "科大陳繁昌突再提早7個月「卸任」 首副史維任署理校長". HK01. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ "Virtual highflier set to become UST president". The Standard. Retrieved 16 January 2018.