CV: Yao-Jen Chang

Professor Yao-Jen Chang, PhD
Phone: +886 3 265 4630
Office: 512, Electronic Hall
Lab: 517, Electronic Hall
email: yjchang at cycu dot edu dot tw

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Professor Chang's research areas include motion controlled technology, welfare technology, learning technology, and social inclusion. In recent years, his main research contributions are in applying motion controlled technology/augmented reality to support employment for people with disabilities, and assisting social workers to improve employment services for people with disabilities. Professor Chang has published his research in prestigious academic journals including IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Research in Developmental Disabilities, and Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. To date, he has published over 39 journal papers, of which 35 are SSCI/SCI journal papers. Professor Chang has over 3000 citations on Google Scholar, especially for his papers on Kinect (motion controlled technology) which are ranked first in the world by citation count. 

Professor Chang is dedicated to assistive technologies for people with disabilities, and pioneered the application of haptic technologies for people with disabilities. Since the paper was published in Research in Developmental Disabilities in 2011, it has been cited over 1200 times. In 2010, Professor Chang was invited by ACM SIGACCESS to write an article, the first and only scholar from Taiwan to receive this honor since SIGACCESS was founded in 1994. In 2009 and 2012, Professor Chang led students to participate in the ACM Student Research Competition on Accessible Computing, winning third place worldwide honors twice. In the past decade, he has led 12 Ministry of Science and Technology projects, and served as the lead investigator for an integrated sensing technologies project.

Internationally active, he  served as an editor for the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network, program committee member for 7 international conferences including ACM and IEEE, and reviewer for 20 SSCI/SCI journals including Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. From 2009-2012, he served as the director of the Computer Center at CYCU for 3 consecutive years, promoting many innovative information services on campus including the 1999 customer service hotline, introduced CMMI ML2, led the Computer Center to pass ISO27001 international information security certification with zero deficiencies for 6 consecutive assessments by SGS, earned accolades from TANet for outstanding leadership and coordination abilities. In November 2011, he was honored with the TANet Outstanding Individual Award. In 2017, he won the Best Paper Award at TANET2017 with his paper on image recognition technology, and again in 2018 for his work on assistive technologies for people with disabilities. Because of his achievements in helping technologies, Professor Chang was appointed Distinguished Professor at CYCU in 2015 and 2021.

Educational Background
1982~1986 Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
1988~1992 Ph.D. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
1992~1995 Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Industrial Experiences
1997~1999 EC Technical Consultant for Asaa-Pacific, IBM
2000~2004 Chief Scientist, Yam Digital

Publications and Citations to my publications (Google Scholar)

Courses offered

1. Assistive Technology
2. Service Learning

Research Interests

1. Assistive Technology for Cognition
2. Software-based rehabilitation
3. Games for Children with Autism

International Academic Activities

Journal Editorial Board and Program Committee

Journal Review