McCann was raised in
Windsor, Ontario. He studied engineering and physics at
Queen's University before graduating with a degree in math, and earned a PhD in mathematics from
Princeton University in 1994. McCann was a Tamarkin Assistant Professor at
Brown University from 1994, before joining the
University of Toronto Department of Mathematics in the fall of 1998. He served as editor-in-chief of the
Canadian Journal of Mathematics from 2007 to 2016, and again since 2022. He was an invited speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul in 2014. He was elected a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society in 2012, of the Royal Society of Canada in 2014, of the Fields Institute in 2015 and of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2020. In 2025 he received the
Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics. ==References==