Yau-Man Chan

Who is Yau-Man Chan?

Yau-Man Chan is an Malaysian-born 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 Sabah, North Borneo, Malaysia.

He is the Chief Technology Officer for Computing Services, Network Services, and Telecommunications at the University of California, Berkeley's College of Chemistry and 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 from MIT and a Masters from UC Santa Barbara.

In the polling at the official Survivor website, Chan was voted as being the favorite survivor of the Fiji season, with a 65.5% popularity rating. The second-most-popular, Earl, only had 10%.

Jeff Probst called Chan an "unlikely hero." There are just some people who have a way about them - instantly charming - that makes you want to pull for them."