Yau-Man Chan (/ˈjaʊ ˌmæn/; born August 26, 1952) is a Malaysian table tennis player, technology executive, and reality television participant.

[4] Chan was also the 2005-06 Northern California Division Director for the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association.

[7] He appeared on the jury at the end of the season and voted for Earl Cole to win the game and one million dollars.

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.

On the first episode of the show, he formed a loose alliance with fellow favorites Jonathan Penner, Ami Cusack, and Eliza Orlins.

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 worried what would happen if he found the Hidden Immunity Idol again.

Fields, who was one of the first people to visit Exile Island in this season, had shared all the clues to the location of the Hidden Immunity Idol that she had gathered with Chan, with the understanding that the two of them would share the idol in a similar manner that Chan and Earl Cole did in Survivor: Fiji.

[citation needed] Chan received an invitation to be a participant of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, the 20th season of the show, but had to decline due to an inability to secure sufficient leave from work.

The pilot was developed by Brian Dunning (of the Skeptoid podcast) and producer Ryan Johnson (American Dragster).

The show was intended to be a reality TV series that would investigate the paranormal and fringe science from a skeptical scientific point of view.

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