[ Background ] [ Education | Relative Employment History | Academic/Professional Honors and Awards ]

Education:

2001 PDipTHE, Postgraduate Diploma for Teaching in Higher Education

National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University

1993 – 1997 PhD, Spectral Techniques in Digital Logic Design
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

1990 – 1992 MEng, A New Technique for Automatic Identification of Multiple Vechicles
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

1985 – 1989 BEng, Honor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Relevant Employment History:

1989 – 1990 Supplier Quality Engineer, General Motor Singapore Ltd.

1990 – 1995 Research Assistant, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

1995 - 1998 Lecturer, French-Singapore Institute (FSI), Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore

1998 - 1999 Project Consultant, Technical Application Division, Flextech Electronics Pte. Ltd., a fully owned subsidiary of a public listed company Flextech Holdings in Singapore.

July 1999 - September 2005 Assistant Professor, Division of Circuits and Systems, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

October 2005 - now Tenure Associate Professor, Division of Circuits and Systems, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Academic/Professional Honors and Awards:  

Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Asia 2012 Edition

(This biographical reference honors leading figures from the Asian region and this edition covers over 30,000 individuals from every significant field of endeavor including sciences, finance and business, government and politics, sports, entertainments and more) 

Listed in 2010, 2011 Dictionary of International Biography – 35^th and 36^th Edition

Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 Editions

Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2011-2012 Edition

Listed in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century in 20082010 by the Research Academy of IBC

(This title is published by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England. Entry into this book is based on merit alone and editorial invitation)

Gold Leaf Certificate of the Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics 2010 (PrimeAsia 2010), 22-25 September 2010

(The Gold Leaf Certificate was awarded to the paper entitled “A Very Low Power 0.7V subthreshold Fully Programmable Gaussian Function Generator” authored by F. Li, C. H. Chang and L. Siek for demonstrating high quality research ranked in the first decile (top 10%) of the 103 papers presented at the conference.)

Silver Leaf Certificate of the Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics 2010 (PrimeAsia 2010), 22-25 September 2010

(The Silver Leaf Certificate was awarded to the paper entitled “Reduction of Partial Product Matrix for High-Speed Single or Multiple Constant Multiplication” authored by M. Faust and C. H. Chang for demonstrating high quality research ranked in the second decile (top 10-20%) of the 103 papers presented at the conference.)

2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Student Travel Grant received by my PhD student, Ms. Ramya Muralidharan on 1 June 2010 at Paris, France

(The travel grant of 350 Euro was received by Ms. Ramya Muralidharan to present our coauthored paper: R. Muralidharan and C. H. Chang, “Fast hard multiple generators for radix-8 Booth encoded modulo 2ⁿ1 and modulo 2ⁿ+1 multipliers”)

2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Student Travel Grant received by my PhD student, Mr. Mathias Faust on 1 June 2010 at Paris, France

(The travel grant of 350 Euro was received by Mr. Faust Mathias to present our coauthored paper: M. Faust and C. H. Chang, “Minimal logic depth adder tree optimization for multiple constant multiplication”)

2009 IEEE Circuits and Systems Singapore Chapter Graduate Student Award to my PhD student, Mr. Mathias Faust, received at the IEEE Circuits and Systems Singapore Chapter Graduate Student Workshop in Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing held on 29. September 2009.

(The award carries with a certificate and a cash prize of S$200 was given to Mr. Mathias Faust for his outstanding academic performance and research contribution in Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing during his graduate study in Nanyang Technological University)

Charter Fellow of Advisory Directorate International appointed by American Biographical Institute, Inc. (ABI) in July 2008

(The appointment of Charter Fellow is to foster the leaders inspiring leaders goal of ABI by acknowledging the meaningful contributions and influence of an elite group of selected individuals)

Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2008-2009 - 25^th silver anniversary special edition.

(The biographical record inclusion is limited to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their own fields of endeavor and who have, thereby, contributed significantly to the betterment of contemporary society)

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Student Travel Grant received by my PhD student, Ms. Ramya Muralidharan on 19 May 2008 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA

(The travel grant of US$500.00 was received by Ms. Ramya Muralidharan to present our coauthored paper: R. K. Satzoda, R. Muralidharan and C. H. Chang, “Programmable LSB-first and MSB-first modular multiplier for ECC in GF(2^m)”)

Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 9 May 2007

(The most senior category of membership awarded to members who have demonstrated significant individual responsibility, sustained achievement and exceptional professionalism during their careers)

Collaboration Development Award from ReSMIQ, Canada, December 2007

(Awarded by the Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec, Canada to support the travel to a university in Quebec for the development of research collaboration. The value of the award was Canadian $3500) 

Collaboration Development Award for Microelectronics and Embedded Systems, April 2007

(Awarded by the Foregin and Commonwealth Office of British High Commission, Singapore under the Global Opportunities Fund. This award supported the development of collaboration between scientists and engineers in the UK and SE Asia in the fields of Microelectronics and Embedded Systems)

AcademicKey’s Who’s Who in Engineering Education, 2006.

Vista Research Society of Industry Leaders (SIL), Invited Membership, 2006.

Research Outcome Award Recognition (ROAR), awarded by Nanyang Technological University, Office of Research in October 2006. 

Research Outcome Award Recognition (ROAR), awarded by Nanyang Technological University, Office of Research in February 2006.

2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Student Travel Grant received by my PhD student, Ms. Yajuan He on 21 May 2006 at Kos Island, Greece

(The travel grant of 300 Euro was received by Ms. Yajuan He to present our coauthored paper: Y. He and C. H. Chang, “A low-power, high-speed RB-to-NB converter for fast redundant binary multiplier”)

2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Student Travel Grant received my PhD student, Ms. Aijiao Cui on 21 May 2006 at Kos Island, Greece

(The travel grant of 300 Euro was received by Ms. Aijiao Cui to present our coauthored paper: A. Cui and C. H. Chang, “Stego-signature at logic synthesis level for digital design IP protection”)

2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Student Travel Grant received by my PhD student, Mr. Jiajia Chen on 21 May 2006 at Kos Island, Greece

(The travel grant of 300 Euro was received by Mr. Jiajia Chen to present our coauthored paper: C. H. Chang, J. Chen and A. P. Vinod, “Maximum likelihood disjunctive decomposition to reduced multirooted DAG for FIR filter design”)

Lista Innovation Prize 2005, 2^nd prize, EMPA Academy, St. Gallen, Switzerland won by Urs Kuhn and Joerg Eugster, my internship students

(This accolade for outstanding innovative undergraduate project was awarded to Urs Kuhn and Joerg Eugster from the HSR Univeristy of Applied Sciences for their internship research project performed at NTU titled “Truncated multiplier in digital signal processing” proposed by me and joinly supervised with Professor Erwin Braendle from HSR)

Student Paper Contest for Financial Support to my PhD student, Ms. He Yajuan, Awarded by 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Received 26 May 2005 by Ms. He Yajuan at International Conference Centre, Kobe, Japan

(This financial support was awarded to only 25 out of 148 outstanding student papers. My student, Ms. He Yajuan received this award for the following two papers she authored with me: Y. He, C. H. Chang, J. Gu and H. A. H. Fahmy, “A novel covalent redundant binary Booth encoder” and Y. He, C. H. Chang and J. Gu, “An area efficient 64-bit square root carry-select adder for low power applications”. At least one authors of the accepted paper must be a student to qualify for the student paper contest)

IEEE Senior Membership, 15 February 2003

(Awarded by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in recognition of experience reflecting professional maturity and significant professional achievements)

Oversea Attachment Programme (Outbound) Visiting Scholarship, period: June 1, 2003 - June 29, 2003 to Edith Cowan University

(Awarded by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) of Singapore to encourage university researchers to foster joint academic and research collaborations with renowned overseas institutions, whereby such collaborations would lead to quality collaborative projects amongst the researchers. The OAP (Outbound) Committee, comprising members from the university, would call for applications, review and approve applications for funding under this program on a competitive basis)

Student Travel Support Award and Finalist of Best Paper Award, IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration 1995 (VLSI ’95), International Conference Hall, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan, August 29, 1995 – September 1, 1995. Paper title: Fast Generalized Arithmetic and Adding Transform, coauthored with Dr. Bogdan J. Falkowski. 

(VLSI’95 is a biennial specialized VLSI conference in its ten year. It is held together with ASP-DAC’95 and CHDL’95. The VLSI’95 committee selected 24 regular papers out of 48 submissions and from the high quality submission, the VLSI’95 programme committee selected 5 candidates for the VLSI’95 best paper award. The other 4 award candidates came from Universities in Italy, France and Germany, and NTT Japan. This paper also received the student paper competition award for travel support.)