Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory
Chan is an Assistant Astronomer at the Steward Observatory, a Data Science Fellow at the University of Arizona's Data Science Institute, and a coordinator of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)'s Software and Data Compatibility Working Group. An avid coder with extensive experience in computational astrophysics and high-performance computing, Chan has developed new algorithms to solve complex physical systems, used graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate numerical simulations, and applied machine learning algorithms to speed up and automate data processing. Chan also architected EHT's cloud computing infrastructure to enable the international collaboration to work together and accelerated EHT's data processing, and allowed for the release of the first image of the M87 black hole earlier this year.