Jin-Fu Chang was born in 1948 in Taiwan. He received his B. S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University (1970) and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley (1977). In his past, he had held teaching and research positions at the National Taiwan University, National Central University, and National Chi Nan University in Taiwan and the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California, USA.
He also has held a number of administrative posts in Taiwan including Department Head of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University; Director of the Office of Science and Technology Advisory Office, Ministry of Education; Dean of Academic Affairs, National Central University; Deputy Minister of the National Science Council; President of the National Chi Nan University; Minister of the Executive Yuan (Cabinet) of the Government of Taiwan, Board Chairman of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and Governor of Taiwan Province.
He is presently President of Yuan-Ze University and Board Chairman of Institute for Information Industry (III). His recent research interest is wireless communications, particularly wireless mobile communications under very high mobility.
