Tat-Jun Chin was born and raised in Nibong Tebal, Penang. He received his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering (Mechatronics) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2003, and his Ph.D. in Computer Systems Engineering from Monash University in 2007 with a thesis titled Kernel Subspace Methods in Computer Vision. His undergraduate studies were partly supported by an Agilent Technologies Scholarship, and his Ph.D. studies were mainly supported by an Endeavour Australia-Asia Award. He was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore from 2007-2008. Since 2008 he has been a Senior Research Associate (2008-2010), Lecturer (2010-2013), and Senior Lecturer (2014-2016) at e University of Adelaide. Since 2017 he was an Associate Professor at the same university. His research interests include robust estimation and geometric optimization. He won a CVPR award and DSTO award (both in 2015) for his research work.
