Naehyuck Chang is a Full Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) from 2014. Before he joined KAIST, he was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University from 1997 to 2014. Dr. Chang also served as a Vice Dean of College of Engineering, Seoul National University from 2011 to 2013. His current research interests include low-power embedded systems and Design Automation of Things such as systematic design and optimization of energy storage systems and electric vehicles.
Dr. Chang is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow for contribution to low-power design. Dr. Chang is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Transactions on Design Automation of Electronics Systems, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems. He also served for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, and so on, as an Associate Editor. Dr. Chang is (was) the General Co-Chair of VLSI-SoC (Very Large Scale Integration), ICCD (International Conference on Computer Design) 2014 and 2015, ISLPED 2011, etc. Dr. Chang is (was) Technical Program (Co-) Chair of DAC (Design Automation Conference) 2016, ASP-DAC (Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference) 2015, ICCD 2014, CODES+ISSS (Hardware Software Codesign and System Synthesis) 2012, ISLPED 2009, etc. Dr. Chang is the Past Chair of ACM SIGDA (Special Interest Group on Design Automation).
Dr. Chang is a recipient of several ISLPED (International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design) low-power design contest awards, 2012 SAE Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award, 2014 ISLPED Best Paper Award, 2009 IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter Award, etc. Dr. Chang was LG Yonam Foundation Research Professor in 2005.
Dr. Chang is currently working for Design Automation of Things, especially for low-power and low-energy design and operation of electric vehicles.