His research areas of interests include computer vision, image processing and fuzzy sets. Dr. Chan has published more than 50 international journals and conference publications. He was the founding chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (Malaysia chapter), and recipients of few prestige awards such as Young Scientist by Academy Science Malaysia in 2016, Hitachi Fellowships in 2012, as well as the Top 100 British Young Engineers in 2010. Currently he is AE of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, and he has served as General Chair and Organizing of VCIP2012 and ACPR2015. He is a senior member of IEEE and a chartered engineer of IET.