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.
Currently, he is Professor of the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and a visiting professor of Graduate Institute of IPS, Waseda University, Japan. 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. From 1996 to 2001, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. His current research interests include electronic design automation (with an emphasis on physical design for nanometer IC's and design for manufacturability), design automation for biochips, and combinatorial optimization. He has been working very closely with the semiconductor industry on projects and has published over 120 ACM/IEEE conference/journal papers in these areas, including a few highly cited works on flooprlanning, placement, routing, and FPGA.
Dr. Chang received a Best Paper Award at the 2007 VLSI Design/CAD Symposium for his work on biochip routing, an award at the 2006 ACM/IEEE ISPD International Placement Contest, the 2005 and 2006 First-Class Principal Investigator Award (formerly Distinguished Research Award) from National Science Council of Taiwan, the 2004 MXIC Young Chair Professorship from the MXIC Corp, the 2004 Dr. Wu Ta-You Memorial Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan for research excellence, the inaugural Research Achievement Award from National Taiwan University in 2004, four Excellent Teaching Awards from National Taiwan University in 2004, 2006, and 2007 (ranked #1 in the department for the undergraduate students' teaching surveys in 2004 and 2005) and from National Chiao Tung University in 2000 (ranked #1 in the Department for this inaugural award), Best Paper Award at the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD-95) for his work on FPGA routing, and nine Best Paper nominations from the 2007 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC-07) for his work on package-level routing, the 2007 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD-07; two papers) for his work on X-architecture placement and Steiner-tree construction, the 2005 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC-05) for his work on the X-architecture multilevel routing, the 2004 ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC-04) for his work on temporal floorplanning, 2003 ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems for his work on rectilinear block placement using B*-trees, the 2002 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-02) for his work on multilevel routing, the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD-01) for his work on temporal partitioning, and the 2000 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC-2K) for his work on the B*-tree floorplan representation.
Dr. Chang is an editor of the international Journal of Information Science and Engineering. He currently serves on the ACM SIGDA Physical Design Technical Committee and has served on the technical program committees of a few most important international conferences on electronic design automation and VLSI circuit design, including ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) , IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD; organizing committee), ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC; topic chair), ACM/IEEE Design Automation and Test Conference in Europe (DATE), IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation & Test (VLSI-DAT; topic chair) , IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC; topic chair), IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT; program co-chair), IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics (IECON; topic chair), IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), and IEEE TENCON. He is currently an independent board director of Genesys Logic, Inc., the Chair of the EDA Consortium of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, a member of the Board Governors of the Taiwan IC Design Society, a Review Committee Member of the National Science Council and the Ministry of Economics Affairs, Taiwan, and a member of the ACM, ACM/SIGDA, IEEE, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.