Introduction

Hsie-Chia Chang received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1995, 1997, and 2002, respectively, all in electronics engineering department.

He was with OSP/DE1, MediaTek Corporation, from 2002 to 2003, where he was involved in decoding architectures for combo single chip. In 2003, he joined the Electronics Engineering Department, National Chiao-Tung University, as a Faculty Member, where he has been a Professor, since 2010. His research interests include algorithms and VLSI architectures in signal processing, in particular, error control codes and crypto-systems. He has authored a book, over 120 IEEE journal/conference papers, and over 70 U.S./China/Taiwan patents.

Dr. Chang was a recipient of the Outstanding Youth Electrical Engineer Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2010, and the Outstanding Youth Researcher Award from the Taiwan IC Design Society in 2011. He had served as the Deputy Director General with the Chip Implementation Center, Taiwan, from 2014 to 2017. He has also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I: REGULAR PAPERS since 2012, as well as a Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference from 2011 to 2013, and the International Solid-State Circuits Conference since 2018.