Naehyuck Chang is currently serving as Senior Vice President at Samsung Electronics Device Solutions Research America, where he focuses on power, thermal, and energy challenges for advanced AI computing systems. From 2019 to 2024, he served as Executive Vice President at Samsung SDI, Samsung’s battery subsidiary.

Before his industry leadership roles, Dr. Chang was a tenured professor for over two decades. From 2014 to 2021, he held a tenured full professorship in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Earlier, from 1997 to 2014, he served as a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), where he later attained the rank of tenured full professor. He also held visiting faculty appointments at Arizona State University (2005) and the University of Southern California (2009).

Dr. Chang served as Chair of ACM SIGDA and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, and has been an organizer, editor, or steering committee member for numerous premier conferences and journals in embedded systems and design automation. At the university level, he also served as Associate Dean at both SNU and KAIST.

In recognition of his technical and professional leadership, Dr. Chang was named a Fellow of the IEEE CEDA (2012), a Fellow of the ACM (2015), and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (2023).