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Raymond Chan is an Associate Dean (Research) of 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 300 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 the 2006 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences and 2008 and 2009 Japan Prizes (Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize). He is a fellow of the World Innovation Foundation in UK.

Chan has presented over 80 invited conference talks in more than 15 foreign countries and has reviewed papers for more than 50 different international journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of:

  1. Asian Journal of Mathematics by International Press (co-Chief Editor)
  2. Calcolo by Springer
  3. Computing Reviews by ACM
  4. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences by Hindawi Publishing Corporation
  5. Journal of Computational Mathematics by Global Science Publishers
  6. Mathematica Numerica Sinica by Chinese Academy of Sciences
  7. Mathematical Modelling and Applied Computing by Research India Publications
  8. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications by Wiley Interscience
  9. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences by SIAM
  10. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing by SIAM
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; and Hao-Min Zhou, who won an Honorable Mention in the Householder Prize Competition in 2002 and is an NSF CAREER awardee in 2007.

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,
or click on them for more information.

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.