Yao-Wen Chang
Yao-Wen Chang was born in Chia-Yi, Taiwan in 1966.
He received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information
Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1988, and the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University
of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1996, respectively.
He was a 2nd Lieutenant during his compulsory military service
from 1988 to 1990,
a Research Assistant in the Institute of
Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan from 1990 to 1991,
and a Teaching/Research Assistant in the
Department of
Computer Sciences,
the University of Texas at Austin from 1992
to 1996.
In the summers of 1994 and 1995, he was a Research Staff Member
in the VLSI Design Group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
Yorktown Heights, New York
and a teaching assistant in the VLSI Design Automation Group
at IBM, Austin, Texas, respectively.
He is currently an Associate Professor in the
Department
of Computer and Information Science,
National Chiao Tung University,
Hsinchu, Taiwan,
where he received an inaugural all-university Excellent Teacher Award in 2000.
He also received a teaching material award from the Ministry of Education,
Taiwan for the course "Introduction to VLSI Design" in 2001.
His current research interests include design
automation/architectures/systems for VLSI
(with emphasis on very deep submicron issues),
field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and combinatorial optimization.
Dr. Chang received Best Paper Award at the 1995 IEEE International
Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'95) for his work on FPGA routing,
2nd Place M.S. Thesis Supervision Award
(Student: Jai-Ming Lin) on FPGA architecture design from
the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan in 1998,
and Supervision for an inaugural Best Student Paper Award
(students: Chia-Yuan Chang and Hui-Ru Jiang)
at the 11th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium (in 2000)
for their work on interconnect-driven floorplanning.
He serves on the technical program committee of 2001 ACM/SIGDA
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC-2001), Japan.
He is a member of the ACM,
ACM/SIGDA,
IEEE,
and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.