Yau-Man Chan

He retired from University of California, Berkeley in June 2013. He was the Chief Technology Officer for Computing Services, Network Services, and Telecommunications at the College of Chemistry. He is also a champion table tennis player. Chan was also the 2005-06 Northern California Division Director for the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association. He has a Bachelor of Science (physics) from MIT and a Masters in scientific instrumentation from UC Santa Barbara in 1977.

As aired in Episode Three, the Favorites lost the immunity challenge and Chan was targeted by Survivor: Panama favorite Cirie Fields, the swing vote for the two alliances (the other consisting of Amanda Kimmel, Ozzy Lusth, Parvati Shallow and James Clement). Fields targeted him because of his reputation as an intelligent player, and she was scared of what would happen if he found the Hidden Immunity Idol again. Despite Penner's attempts to persuade Fields to join their alliance, Chan was eliminated and became the third person voted off the island by a vote of 6–2–1, despite an effort to target Shallow.

On May 29, 2011, Chan lectured on "Reality of Reality TV" at the 2nd annual SkeptiCalCon event held in Berkeley, California.

Chan was part of one of the largest controversies in Survivor history. In a challenge where the reward was a new truck (2008 Ford Super Duty), Chan won, and immediately offered a deal to fellow player Andria "Dreamz" Herd. Chan would give Herd the truck if, in exchange, Herd would promise to give immunity to Chan at the Final Four, thus securing a place for Chan in the Final Three. The deal was contingent on both Chan and Herd being in the Final Four and Herd winning individual immunity at that stage of the game.

On January 3, 2008, Chan was announced to be among the Favorites returning for Survivor: Micronesia — Fans vs. Favorites, the 16th season of Survivor which began airing on February 7, 2008. On the first episode of the show, he formed a loose alliance with fellow favorites Jonathan Penner, Ami Cusack, and Eliza Orlins. Chan joined the rest of his tribe in voting Jonny Fairplay off the island during that episode.

In April 2008, Chan worked on a pilot for a skeptical reality show called The Skeptologists. The pilot was developed by Brian Dunning (of the Skeptoid podcast) and producer Ryan Johnson (American Dragster).

Another Skeptologists cast member, Dr. Steven Novella, heads the podcast The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, on which Chan is interviewed in the April 12, 2008 episode.

Yau-Man Chan (born August 26, 1952) is a Malaysian-American table tennis player, technology executive, and reality television participant. He was the fourth-place finisher in the reality television series Survivor: Fiji. He returned to the show in Survivor: Micronesia, where he was the third contestant to be ousted. He was born in Hong Kong to ethnic Chinese parents and raised in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.