Scott Yang-Lang Chang (張陽郎)

Scott Yang-Lang Chang, Ph.D.

Yang-Lang Chang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, in 1987, the M.S. degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and information engineering from the National Central University, Taiwan, in 2003. He started his career with NDC IBM Taiwan as a Hardware Design Engineer before joining ALCATEL as a Software Development Engineer. He was a Visiting Scientist of Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Director of High Performance Computing and Deep Learning Laboratory and NVIDIA-Taipei Tech Embedded GPU Joint Laboratory at the National Taipei University of Technology. His research interests include remote sensing, high performance computing, deep learning, pattern recognition, image processing, and SAR and hyperspectral images analysis. Dr. Chang is a Member of SPIE, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, the Chinese Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and the Chinese Society of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. He has been the General Co-Chair, Workshop Chair, Program Committee member, and Session Chair for several international conferences. He serves as a Guest Editor for the special issue on High Performance Computing in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing in the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING, the special section of the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing on High-Performance Computing in Applied Remote Sensing, and the special issue of Remote Sensing on GPU Computing for Geoscience and Remote Sensing. He also served as a General Secretary, and is currently the Chair of Taipei Chapter of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.