Hsun-Hsien Chang is a research scientist on bioinformatics in the Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD (2007) in Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he conducted cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in the Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research. He received his BS (1998) in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University and his MBA (2000) from National Chengchi University, both in Taiwan.

His research interests lie at the intersection of information processing and sciences, with the twin objectives of understanding the information processing in quantum physics and in biology and of applying novel schemes of information processing to scientific studies. His major research fields include: signal processing and information theory, machine learning, bioimaging, biophysics, biological information, and quantum information. His current projects involve the development of system biology approaches to infer functional networks of genes, which are useful for discovering new tumor classes and understanding disease processes.

He is a member of the Bio Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was named a Government Scholar by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, from 2002 to 2005. He was honored with Investigator Awards at the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging and the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing. He is a member of IEEE and American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

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