Carl Kochao Chang (; born 1952) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist who is Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Director of Software Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at

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, where he served as its department chair from 2002 to 2013.

Career

He worked for GTE Automatic Electric and

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before joining the

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in 1984, where he directed the International Center for Software Engineering. He served as Professor and Director for the Institute for Mobile, Pervasive, and Agile Computing Technologies (IMPACT) at

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from 2001 to 2002, before moving to

in July 2002 to take the department chair position. Chang was the 2004

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president. Previously he served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Software (1991–1994) and Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Computer (2007–2010). He spearheaded the Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001) project jointly sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the ACM, and the

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. He is a Life Fellow of

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, a Fellow of AAAS, and a Life FellowLife Fellow, European Academy of Sciences
/ref> and an officer of the European Academy of Sciences. Chang retired from Iowa State University in 2022.

Awards and recognition

He received the 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the 2006 Bulgaria Academy of Sciences Marin Drinov Medal, and the 2012 IEEE Computer Society Richard E. Merwin Medal.2012 IEEE Computer Society Richard E. Merwin Medal
/ref> As a three times winner of IBM Faculty Award, Chang's research interests include software engineering, human computer interaction and digital health. He is the founder of Situation AnalyticsSituation Analytics: A Foundation for a New Software Engineering Paradigm
/ref> based on his Situ theoretical framework.Situ: A Situation-Theoretic Approach to Context-Aware Service Evolution
/ref> He is the recipient of the 2014 Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award from China Computer Federation (

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中国计算机学会) as well as the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus by the National Central University in Taiwan (中央大學－台灣)。

References

External links

Professor Carl K. Chang's official web siteProfessor Carl K. Chang's personal web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chang, Carl K. American computer scientists American people of Taiwanese descent Auburn University faculty Fellows of the IEEE Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Iowa State University faculty University of Illinois Chicago faculty Living people Northwestern University alumni Engineers from Iowa National Central University alumni 1952 births