Raymond Chan is the Associate Dean on Research for the Faculty of Science and a Chair Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong where he obtained his B.Sc. degree (First Class Honors) in 1980. Uncertain of what to do next, he first stayed in the Department as a full-time instructor after graduation. Then he started his graduate study in 1981 with a full fellowship from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics there in 1984 and 1985 respectively under the supervision of Professor Olof Widlund.

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

Chan has published more than 90 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 at Beijing in China; and a Morningside Award in 1998 at Beijing in China. He was a nominator for Kyoto Prize (2006, 2010) and also for the Japan Prizes (2008-2010) (Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize). He is a fellow of the World Innovation Foundation in UK.

Chan has served on the editorial boards of 15 journals, including: Asian Journal of Mathematics (co-Chief Editor since 1997), 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 90 invited conference talks in more than 20 foreign countries and has reviewed papers for more than 60 different international 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.

Teaching assignment, lecture notes, and office hours

CV with address, publication list etc.

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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.