Shu-Park Chan

Shu-Park Chan (1929-2013) was a Chinese-American electrical engineer and academic whose research and teaching in graph theory and network topology helped train a generation of Silicon Valley engineers. Born in Canton, China, he studied at the Virginia Military Institute and earned a doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1962 before joining the faculty of Santa Clara University, where he taught for more than thirty years and supervised doctoral students who went on to found or co-found companies including Cadence Design Systems and Atmel. In 1994 he founded the International Technological University, serving as its first president until 2010.