Wai Kin (Victor) Chan is a Professor of the Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China. Prior to joining Tsinghua, he served on the faculty of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. He received his B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, M.E. from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Chan has served as the lead editor of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference, co-editor of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, program chair of the 2013 Industrial and System Engineering Research Conference, editor of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, and associate editor of the IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research. In addition, Dr. Chan has served as program committee for a number of international conferences, and panelist for U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and Macau Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT). He is a member of the Macau Science and Technology Innovation Development Committee.
His research interests include discrete-event simulation, agent-based simulation, big-data analytics and their applications in social networks, business big-data, service systems, healthcare, transportation, energy markets, and manufacturing.