Short Bio

Edward Chang joined the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, in September 1999. Ed 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 distributed data mining and their applications to rich-media data management and social-network collaborative filtering. Ed has served on several ACM, IEEE, and SIAM conference program committees, and co-chaired several conferences including MMM, ACM MM, ICDE, and WWW. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and ACM Multimedia Systems Journal. Ed is a recipient of the IBM Faculty Partnership Award and the NSF Career Award. He is on leave from UC since March 2006, heading Google Research in China.

Ed received his M.S. in IEOR and M.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and Stanford, respectively. Ed received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999.