Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timothy M. Chan
I think the University Research Chair at Waterloo may be enough for  #5. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=tm-chan&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=some&as_subj=eng&hl=en&lr= Google scholar lists quite a few good publications although none obviously stand out by their citation record as great yet (the one with the most citations is the output-sensitive convex hull algorithm mentioned in the article but I like the dynamic convex hull and randomized optimization technique ones, halfway down the results page, even better). For http://weblog.fortnow.com/2009/01/soda-and-me.html those who complain that algorithm research is just shaving logarithmic factors off of time bounds, that's a pretty accurate description of much of his research, and that sort of incremental work doesn't always lead to high citation counts, but he does it very well. I work in the same area as him and think he fully deserves his place in :Category:Researchers in geometric algorithms but it's hard to point to anything specific (beyond the research chair, or perhaps his very young age at Ph.D.) that we can use here to justify notability; nevertheless I'm certain he's someone for whom it will eventually be obvious that he should have an article here and I don't see the harm in keeping it until that time. (Yes,  — but the article, and the bulk of my keep argument, is based on his present accomplishments
— User:David, 03:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:CRYSTAL (Wikipedia:Notability)