UCSB Engineering

Edward Chang

Professor

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tel: (805)893-2971
echang@ece.ucsb.edu

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Biography

Professor Edward Chang received his M.S. in Computer Science and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1994 and 1999, respectively. Between 1985 and 1995, he worked at Applied Materials, HP, and Sun Microsystems for ten years. After he received his PhD, he joined the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, in September 1999. He received his tenure in March 2003, and was promoted to full professor of Electrical Engineering in 2006. His recent research activities are in the areas of machine learning, data mining, high-dimensional data indexing, and their applications to image databases, video surveillance, and Web mining. Recent research contributions of his group include methods for learning image/video query concepts via active learning with kernel methods, formulating distance functions via dynamic associations and kernel alignment, managing and fusing distributed video-sensor data, categorizing and indexing high-dimensional image/video information, and speeding up Support Vector Machines via parallel matrix factorization and indexing. Professor Chang has served on several ACM (SIGMOD, KDD, MM, & CIKM), IEEE (ICDE, ICDM, & ICME), and SIAM conference program committees. He co-founded the annual ACM Video Sensor Network Workshop and has co-chaired it since 2003. He co-chairs several international conferences including IEEE Multimedia (program area chair, 2004), Multimedia Modeling (general chair, 2006), ACM Multimedia (general chair, 2006), and IEEE Data Engineering (program area chair, 2008). He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and ACM Multimedia Systems Journal. Professor Chang is a recipient of the NSF Career Award and the IBM Faculty Partnership Award. He is currently on leave from UC, heading R&D effort at Google/China.

Awards/Honors

• IBM Faculty Award, 2001-03
• NSF Career Awards, 2001

Selected Publications