Biography: Dr. Young Hwan Chang received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Claire J. Tomlin (EECS). Then, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Hybrid Systems Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley. Previously, he also worked at Cognitive Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Hyundai-Kia R&D Center.
Research Interests: Quantitative imaging analysis, Multiplex tissue imaging, Computational modeling of biological systems, Multimodal integration, ML/DL, Control theory
Lab Philosophy: Passionate & Self-motivated Team Player - "creativity is just connecting things" (Steve Jobs)
What's up in QBI Lab?
March 2026: New bioRxiv paper from the lab - congrats Eric!
Tumor-immune trajectory context connects static tissue architecture to clinical outcomes: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.26.714521v1
March 2026: Congrats Isis! Collaborative work with Stuart Ibsen, “Going Beyond Immunostained Biomarker Fluorescence Intensity of Electrode Arrays for Dielectrophoresis-Based Differentiation of Pancreatic Cancer from Benign Diseases,” has been accepted as a poster at DEP2026.
Feb 2026: Sandhya attends SPIE Medical Imaging and presents a poster titled “Leveraging deep learning for enhanced 3D confocal imaging of circulating hybrid cells" - featured at SPIE Medical Imaging!
Jan 2026: New bioRxiv papers from the lab:
miniMTI: minimal multiplex tissue imaging enhances biomarker expression prediction from histology: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.21.700911v1.abstract
Happy New Year!