Yao-Wen Chang received the B. S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, all in computer science. He is currently the Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, NTU. His current research interest lies in electronic design automation, emphasizing physical design and manufacturability. He has co-authored one textbook on EDA (Morgan Kaufmann, 2009) and one research book on routing (Springer, 2007), 17 U.S. patents and seven Taiwan patents, and over 340 ACM/IEEE conference and journal papers in the above areas, including highly cited works on floorplanning, placement, routing, design for manufacturability, heterogeneous integration, and FPGA.  He was named among The World’s Top 2% Scientists identified by Stanford University and ranked #1 worldwide among 40K+ researchers by the Microsoft Academy for Recent Five-Year Citations in the Hardware and Architecture Domain during 2011/2012 before the system retired.

Dr. Chang was a recipient of four research awards at the 50th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2013 for the First Most Papers (34 DAC papers; #1 worldwide) in the Fifth Decade (still the first prolific author in the sixth decade), etc., 2020 ASP-DAC Prolific Author Award, the first place winner of six recent ACM/IEEE contests, 21-time winner of the DAC/ICCAD/ISPD contests, eleven best paper awards (including one from DAC’17), 23 Best Paper Award nominations from DAC/ICCAD/ISPD, etc., the Distinguished Research Award (highest honor) from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (three times; retired from this award), the IBM Faculty Awards (three times), the 2020 Distinguished Research Award from the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, the 2018 Micron Teacher Award, the 2017 TECO Award, and the 2015 MXIC Chair Professorship, two distinguished teaching awards for ten years (the highest honor for top 1% teachers), and nine excellent teaching awards from NTU.

Dr. Chang has served on the Executive Committee of the IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA) since 2012 and was its president 2020/2021. He is a recipient of the 2015 IEEE CEDA Outstanding Service Award and the 2012 ACM Recognition of Service Award. Dr. Chang has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VLSI SYSTEMS, the IEEE DESIGN AND TEST OF COMPUTERS, etc. He has served as the General Chairs of ICCAD and ISPD, the Program Chairs of ASP-DAC, FPT, ICCAD, and ISPD, the Steering Committee Chair of ISPD, and the Executive/Steering Committees of ASP-DAC, DAC, ICCAD, and ISPD. He has served as the Chair of the EDA Consortium of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, an Independent Board Director of Genesys Logic, and a Technical Consultant of Faraday, MediaTek, and RealTek. He co-founded the Maxeda Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2015, which is a profit-earning EDA vendor providing the leading commercial macro placer MaxPlace.