Timothy Chan is the Canada Research Chair in Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health, a Professor in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, the Director of the Centre for Analytics and AI Engineering, and the Associate Director, Research of the Data Sciences Initiative at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in operations research, optimization, and applied machine learning, with applications in healthcare, medicine, sustainability, and sports. He received his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of British Columbia (2002), and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007). Before coming to Toronto, he was an Associate in the Chicago office of McKinsey and Company (2007-2009), a global management consulting firm. During that time, he advised leading companies in the fields of medical device technology, travel and hospitality, telecommunications, and energy on issues of strategy, organization, technology and operations.
| Editorial Leadership | |
| Manufacturing & Service Operations Management | Associate Editor (2021 – present) |
| Service Science | Associate Editor (2019 – present) |
| Health Care Management Science | Associate Editor (2020 – present); Editorial Board member (2019 – 2020) |
| IISE Transactions | Associate Editor (2018 – present) |
| Operations Research for Health Care | Editorial Board member (2015 – present) |
| Additional Affiliations | |
| Vector Institute | Faculty affiliate (2019 – present) |
| Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital | Affiliate scientist (2015 – present) |
| Techna Institute, University Health Network | Faculty affiliate (2012 – present) |
| Centre for Healthcare Engineering | Faculty affiliate (2009 – present); Director (2014 – 2021) |
| Year | Award |
| 2020 | Second place, Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS Health Applications Section |
| 2020 | Second place, INFORMS Case Competition, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences |
| 2020 | Teaching Award, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto |
| 2020 | Canada Research Chair (renewal), NSERC |
| 2019 | Teaching Award, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto |
| 2018 | Editors Choice article, Medical Physics |
| 2016 | Best poster abstract presentation, NAEMSP Annual Meeting |
| 2015 | Canada Research Chair, NSERC |
| 2014 | Best in Physics, AAPM Annual Meeting |
| 2014 | Finalist, CORS Practice Prize, Canadian Operational Research Society |
| 2013 | First place, Research paper competition, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference |
| 2013 | Early Career Teaching Award, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto |
| 2012 | Early Career Teaching Award, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto |
| 2012 | Second place, Best paper competition, INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Service and Needs |
| 2012 | Early Researcher Award, Province of Ontario |
| 2012 | Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto |
| 2007 | First Place, George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, INFORMS |
| 2007 | Honorable mention, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, INFORMS |
| 2007 | Hugh Hampton Young Memorial Fund Fellowship, MIT |
| 2006 | First place, Student paper competition, CORS |
| 2005 | Graduate Leadership Award, Student Life Programs, MIT |
| 2004 | Postgraduate Scholarship, NSERC |
| 2002 | Postgraduate Scholarship, NSERC |
| 2002 | Presidential Fellowship, MIT |
| 2001 | Wesbrook Scholar, UBC |
| Year | Award to Trainees |
| 2021 | Nasrin Yousefi – First place, student paper competition open category, CORS |
| 2018 | Rafid Mahmood – Second place, student paper competition open category, CORS |
| 2018 | Craig Fernandes – Second place, student paper competition UG category, CORS |
| 2017 | Auyon Siddiq – Second place, student paper competition, INFORMS Health Applications Society |
| 2014 | Auyon Siddiq – First place, student paper competition, CORS |
| 2014 | Sarina Turner – Outstanding energy paper award, Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Toronto |
| 2018 | Taewoo Lee – First place, student paper competition, CORS |
| 2018 | Taewoo Lee – First place, student paper competition, INFORMS Health Applications Society |
| 2013 | Sarina Turner – Outstanding energy paper award, Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Toronto |
| 2012 | Velibor Music – Second place, student paper competition, CORS |