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 Healthcare Engineering, and the Director of the Centre for Analytics and AI Engineering at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in optimization under uncertainty and the application of optimization methods to problems in healthcare, medicine, global engineering, sustainability, and sports. 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. Before coming to Toronto, he was an Associate in the Chicago office of McKinsey and Company, 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.
| Year | Award |
| 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 |
| 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 | Early Researcher Award, Province of Ontario |
| 2012 | Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto |
| 2007 | George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, 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 |