Chan began his career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1985. With heart and mind always in Hong Kong, he came back to Hong Kong in 1986, first at The University of Hong Kong (1986-92) and then at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1993) before joining his Alma Mater in 1993.

Chan has published more than 100 journal papers and is in the ISI's List of Top 250 Highly-Cited Mathematicians in the world since 2004. He won a Leslie Fox Prize in 1989 at Cambridge in the United Kingdom; a Feng Kang Prize in 1997 in Beijing, China; and a Morningside Award in 1998 in Beijing, China. He has served on the editorial boards of many journals, including: Asian Journal of Mathematics (co-Chief Editor since 1997), Advances in Computational Mathematics (since 2010), Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications (since 2004), SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (since 2007), and SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (served from 2000 to 2008). He also presented over 100 invited conference talks in more than 20 countries and reviewed papers for more than 65 different journals.

His wonderful group of graduate students includes Michael Ng, who won an Honorable Mention in the Householder Prize Competition in 1996; Wai-Ki Ching, a prize winner of the 1998 Copper Mountain Conference Student Paper Competition; Chiu-Kwong Wong, a Sloan Dissertation Year Fellow in 1998; Hao-Min Zhou, who won an Honorable Mention in the Householder Prize Competition in 2002 and is an NSF CAREER awardee in 2007; and Zheng-Jian Bai, the Applied Numerical Algebra Prize Winner in 2008.

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Recent Books:

Milestones in Matrix Computation The Selected Works of Gene H. Golub with Commentaries Edited by R. Chan, C. Greif, and D. O'Leary Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

An Introduction to Iterative Toeplitz Solvers Written by R. Chan and X.Q. Jin SIAM, Philiphadia, 2007 Download Matlab Programs in the Book

Recent Work on Image Processing: Move your pointer over the images to see the restored images,
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An image corrupted with 70% salt-and-pepper impulse noise and its restoration		Part of an image obtained from a video (see if you can guess the number) and its enhancment
An image corrupted with 60% random-valued impulse noise and its restoration		A chop-and-nod infrared image from the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope and its restoration.