M.C. Frank CHANG
STEERING COMMITTEE - COMPUTER SCIENCE
Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor at University of California, Los Angeles
Research Area: High speed semiconductor devices and high frequency mixed signal system-on-chip for sensing, communication, and computation applications
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Mau-Chung Frank Chang is the Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (1997- Present). He was the Assistant Director of the High-Speed Electronics Laboratory at Rockwell Science Center (1983-1997). In this tenure, he developed and transferred the AlGaAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) and BiFET (Planar HBT/MESFET) integrated circuit technologies from research laboratory to production line (Today’s Skyworks Solutions), which dominated global smartphone transmitter module production for the past three decades. Throughout his career, Dr. Chang’s research has primarily focused on the development of high-speed semiconductor devices and high-frequency integrated circuits for radio, radar, imager, spectrometer, interconnect, and Edge-AI-computations. He invented the widely used Digitally Controlled Artificial Dielectric (DiCAD), which can be embedded or synthesized in CMOS nano-metric metal interconnects to dynamically vary on-chip transmission-line permittivity (up to 20X in practice) for creating reconfigurable multiband/mode radios & radars at (sub)-mm-Wave frequencies. He also realized the 1st fully integrated Frequency Synthesizer for Terahertz operations (i.e. PLL at 560GHz). More recently, he has led the invention of a Reconfigurable Convolution Neuron Network (RCNN) Accelerator for AIoT applications. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors, an Academician of Academia Sinica of Taiwan, and a Fellow of IEEE. He was honored with the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 2006 and received IET’s JJ Thomson Medal for Electronics in 2017 for his pioneering research in realizing mm-Wave circuits and systems. He also served as the President of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan from 2015 to 2019.
Last updated on: April 2024