Timothy C. Y. Chan

Timothy C. Y. Chan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on Operations Research and Applied Machine Learning, with applications in healthcare, medicine, sustainability, and sports. He is also the Associate Director of the Data Sciences Institute and Director of the Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering. Professor Chan holds editorial roles in several academic journals and has over 120 publications in refereed journals. He received his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also served in leadership roles at INFORMS and CORS, and has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service.

Timothy Chan is a researcher at the University of Toronto specializing in Optimization, Analytics, Healthcare, and Sports. His work focuses on applying mathematical optimization and machine learning to solve complex problems in healthcare, such as improving therapeutic outcomes in depression, optimizing radiotherapy planning, and enhancing access to automated external defibrillators. He also explores the use of generative adversarial networks in automated treatment planning and drone networks for emergency response. His research emphasizes robustness, inverse optimization, and the integration of data-driven methods to address real-world challenges in medical and operational settings.