Kuang-An Chang is a Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Ocean Engineering.  He received his BS degree from National Taiwan University in 1991, followed by his MS and PhD degrees from Cornell University in 1994 and 1999, respectively.  After one-year postdoc at Cornell, he joined Texas A&M faculty in 2000.  His main research focus is on physical modeling using optics and imaging-based non-intrusive measurement techniques for quantitative flow visualization, with applications in coastal and ocean environments.   He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a Professional Engineer in Texas.  He was a Visiting Researcher at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan, a Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University in Japan, and a Visiting Professor at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.