Yao-Wen Chang
Citation Record Overview:
• Ranked No. 1 Worldwide in the augural EDA Halll of Fame (283 papers for top-conference, DAC and ICCAD, and top-journal, IEEE TCAD and ACM TODAES, publications); seven out of the 113 researchers on the list were Phil Kaufman Award recipients (a.k.a. the Nobel Prize in EDA), and only seven Taiwanese researchers were listed, including two Academicians, Academia Sinica
• Ranked No. 1 Worldwide for Recent Five-Year Citations among 40K+ researchers in the Hardware and Architecture Domain of the Microsoft Academic Search Database (from 2010 till 2011 before the system was retired)
• ScholarGPS ranks him 4th Worldwide (out of 13103 researchers; top 0.03%) in lifetime EDA impact and honors him as the only non-US Highly Ranked Scholar (only seven Highly Ranked Scholars in EDA worldwide) in 2026, the only Taiwan-affiliated scholar listed in the top 0.5%.
• Top-2% Scientists by Stanford University: 2026 ranking: Single Year: 74 out of 21,014 researchers (0.35%) in the SubField “Computer Hardware & Architecture” (No. 1 in Taiwan); Career Data: 163 out of 21,014 researchers (0.78%) in the SubField “Computer Hardware & Architecture” (No. 1 in “Computer Hardware & Architecture” in Taiwan)
• Google Scholar: Citations = 13284, H-index: 59 (Ranked No. 1 in EDA in Taiwan)
Yao-Wen Chang received a B.S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1996, respectively, all in computer science.
Dr. Chang is a Fellow of the ACM (2020), the CIEE (2025), and the IEEE (2013). He is a Past President of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) after serving as the first non-US/-European CEDA president in 2020/2021. He currently serves as the IEEE Fellow Search Committee Chair of the IEEE CEDA and served on the 9-member Selection Committee of the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal (the highest honor/a.k.a. the Nobel Prize in semiconductors) in 2022, 2023, and 2024, where he championed two final recipients.
He is a Distinguished Professor of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at NTU after serving as the Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2018-2024. He was Deputy Vice President for Academic Affairs of NTU 2016-2018, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Development of NTU 2016-2018, Founding Director of the Digital Learning Center of NTU 2017-2018, Associate Dean of the College of EECS 2012-2016, and the Director of the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering 2010-2013. Dr. Chang was a visiting professor at Waseda University (早稻田大學) in Japan 2005--2010 and a visiting scholar at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2014.
His current research interests lie in electronic design automation. He has co-authored one textbook on Electronic Design Automation (934 pages; Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2009) and one research book on routing (Springer, 2007), 20 U.S. patents and 7 R.O.C. patents, and about 400 ACM/IEEE conference/journal papers in these areas (107 papers in ACM/IEEE DAC [#1 worldwide], 87 papers in IEEE/ACM ICCAD [#2 worldwide], and 92 papers in IEEE TCAD [#4 worldwide]), including highly cited works on floorplanning, placement, routing, design for manufacturability, and FPGA. He ranked No. 1 worldwide in the EDA Hall of Fame with the most DAC+ICCAD+TCAD+TODAES publications in April 2026 (then 283 papers in total; now 298 papers). The EDA design tools developed by his team have been successfully commercialized twice. Both times were acquired by Synopsys, the World’s largest EDA company, making it one of the very few successful cases in Taiwan. His NTUplace3 placer was renamed in 2008 to the popular Laker Custom Placer of SpringSoft, acquired by the #1 EDA vendor, Synopsys, in 2012 for USD 400M+. His NTUplace4 received three championships at top EDA contests and is the core engine of the leading macro placer, MaxPlace, by Maxeda, which was acquired by Synopsys in 2023. His weighted-average wirelength model for circuit placement has been adopted by Google’s AlphaChip (used for Google’s TPU and Axion chip designs; Analysts at D.A. Davidson estimated the broader TPU market at US$4.8 billion to US$35.8 billion), NVIDIA’s AutoDMP, and newly developed academic placers, such as NTUplace (NTU), ePlace/RePlace (UCSD), DREAMPlace (UT-Austin and Peking University), FuzhouPlace (Fuzhou University and Fudan University), etc. His B*-tree has become a classic topic in textbooks; it is listed as a core skill required for circuit layout design engineers by major international companies (such as Huawei) and is utilized in inhouse tools (e.g., Intel AI Lab) as well as by the winning teams of the last five relevant international EDA competitions.
Dr. Chang’s research work has been reported more than ten times by EE Times; he was cited “a microelectronics pioneer in EDA” in 2013, and his team was praised as “The Best and Brightest Worldwide: The best engineering minds on the planet” in 2015, both by EE Times. Before the system retired, he was ranked #1 worldwide among 40K+ researchers by the Microsoft Academic Search Database for Recent Five-Year Citations in the Hardware and Architecture Domain 2010-2011 (the system was retired in February 2011). ScholarGPS ranks him 4th Worldwide (out of 13103 researchers; top 0.03%) in lifetime EDA impact and honors him as the only non-US Highly Ranked Scholar (only seven Highly Ranked Scholars in EDA worldwide) in 2026, the only Taiwan-affiliated scholar listed in the top 0.5%. He is among World’s Top 2% Scientists named by Stanford University for both career-long and single-year categories; 2026 ranking: Single Year: 74 out of 21,014 researchers (0.35%) in the SubField “Computer Hardware & Architecture” (No. 1 in Taiwan); Career Data: 163 out of 21,014 researchers (0.78%) in the SubField “Computer Hardware & Architecture” (No. 1 in “Computer Hardware & Architecture” in Taiwan).
He has received 14 Best Paper Awards (including the 2025 ICCAD, 2017 DAC, 2010 ICCD, and 1995 ICCD Best Paper Awards), the 2007 ICCAD Professor Margarida Jacome Memorial Award, and the 2020 ASP-DAC Prolific Author Award. His first-place Best Paper Awards from the two premier conferences in the EDA field, ICCAD in 2025 (1,078 submissions) and DAC in 2017 (approximately 700 full-paper submissions), makes him the only scholar in Taiwan to win first places in these conferences in their 63-year and 44-year histories, respectively. Besides the best paper awards, he has received 20+ Best Paper Award Nominations from top conferences, including DAC (6 times), ICCAD (6 times), and ISPD (5 times). Dr. Chang received four awards at the 50th ACM/IEEE DAC in 2013 for the DAC Prolific Author (now 107 papers, the all-time #1 prolific author), the Longest Publication Streak (now 29 years from 1999 to now, #1 worldwide, still running), etc. He is a 1st-place winner of eight major EDA Contests and has received 24 top-3 contest awards.
He has been an NTU Lifetime Distinguished Teacher since 2020 after receiving two NTU distinguished teaching awards (the highest honor for the top 1% of teachers, twice for ten years total), nine NTU excellent teaching awards (nine years), and one inaugural excellent teaching award from National Chiao Tung University, for a total of 20 years in teaching. He has also received many research awards, including the 2021 Academic Award from the Ministry of Education, the 2022 Distinguished Research Fellow (highest honor), three Distinguished Research Awards (2007, 2010, and 2013), and the 2004 Dr. Wu Ta You Memorial Award, all from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) of Taiwan, the IBM Faculty Awards (2010, 2012, and 2013), Google Gifts (2023 and 2024), the 2022 Y. Z. Hsu Science Chair Professorship, the 2020 Distinguished Research Award from the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, 2017 TECO Award, the 2018 Micron Teacher Award, the 2023 Electrical Engineering Medal (the highest honor) and the 2009 Distinguished EE Professor from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, the 2004 MXIC Young Chair Professorship from the MXIC Corp, and the 2015 MXIC Chair Professorship from NTU.
He has served as IEEE CEDA President (2020/2021), President-elect (2018/2019), and Vice President of Conferences (2016/2017) and Technical Activities (2014/2015). Dr. Chang has been an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), IEEE Design & Test of Computers, etc. He has served as the steering committee/general/program chair of ISPD (first in Asia), general/program chair of ICCAD (the only one in Taiwan), program chair of ASP-DAC and FPT, and on the IEEE CEDA, DAC, and ICCAD Executive Committees, the ASP-DAC Steering Committee, and the technical program committees of all major EDA conferences. He is a recipient of the 2026 IEEE CEDA Distinguished Service Award (the 8th recipient to receive this CEDA’s highest service honor and the 1st non-US/-European recipient), the 2015 IEEE CEDA Outstanding Service Award, and the 2012 ACM Recognition of Service Award. He has played a significant role in the EDA development, serving as the chair of the EDA Consortium of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education and the founding chair of Taiwan’s CAD Contest 1999-2001, which has become the world’s most popular CAD Contest at ICCAD since 2012, attracting over 200 teams and 600+ participants every year recently. He was interviewed by IEEE Design & Test, the flagship magazine of the IEEE CEDA, in the June 2025 issue, due to his outstanding contributions and impact on the global EDA field, making him the first Taiwanese scholar to be featured in this magazine.
He is currently an independent board director of MediaTek Inc. (the World’s 5th IC Design House in 2025, after NVIDIA, Broadcom, Qualcomm, and AMD) and has served as an independent board director of Genesys Logic, Inc, a technical consultant of MediaTek, RealTek, and Faraday Technology. He is a co-founder of Maxeda Technology, acquired by Synopsys in 2023. He has collaborated with over 20 companies on R&D projects, with over NTD 170M in industry-academia collaborations, generating over NTD 18M in technology licensing (MediaTek requested to license the WA wirelength model for over NTD 30M in 2026, still in process). He holds 20 U.S. patents and 7 R.O.C. patents, 15 of which have been licensed to industry.
張耀文簡傳
張耀文於 1988 年獲得臺灣大學資訊工程學士，並分別於 1993 年和 1996 年獲得德州大學奧斯汀校區電腦科學碩士和博士學位。現為臺灣大學特聘教授 (2011起)。曾擔任臺灣大學電機資訊學院院長 (2018-2024)、副教務長和教學發展中心主任 (2016-2018)、臺灣大學數位學習中心創始主任(2017-2018)、臺灣大學電機資訊學院副院長 (2012-2016)、電子所所長(2010-2013)、副所長(2008-2010)和臺灣大學技轉組組長(2007-2008)、美國麻省理工學院訪問學者(2014)、日本早稻田大學客座教授(2004-2010) 和 IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 研究員(Research Staff Member, 1994)。
張耀文的研究為半導體被稱為晶片之母的電子設計自動化(Electronic Design Automation，EDA)，旨在提升晶片設計的品質。研究成果深刻改變EDA樣貌，成為業界設計工具核心引擎和教科書內容，分別於2013和2020年榮膺IEEE與ACM Fellow (首年申請即獲晉升，為2013年IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA)晉升Fellow的第一名)，2025年由中國電機工程學會主動遴選為會士。2013年被電資領域最重要媒體EE Times譽為「a microelectronics pioneer in EDA」，2015年團隊被譽為「The Best and Brightest Worldwide」。多年國際社群服務，協助臺灣領航EDA發展，於2020/2021年擔任EDA最重要國際組織IEEE CEDA首位非歐美的總裁，2024年起獲邀擔任IEEE CEDA 的 IEEE Fellow Search Committee 主席，於2022-2024年獲邀擔任 IEEE 總會的 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal (a.k.a. 半導體最高榮譽/半導體諾貝爾獎) 遴選委員會委員(共有九名)，三年任期間協助(championed)兩位最終獲獎者。也是亞洲唯一擔任過兩個頂尖國際會議ICCAD(台灣唯一)和ISPD(亞洲首位)主席的學者，大幅提升臺灣的影響力。由於其傑出和創新的貢獻 (例如，首創ISPD的Lifetime Achievement Award和其相關系列活動)，獲頒2026 IEEE CEDA Distinguished Award (CEDA 最高服務榮譽為，為第八位獲獎者，也是非歐美的首位獲獎者)，2015 IEEE CEDA Outstanding Service Award和2012 ACM Service Award。
合著有專書兩本 (Morgan Kaufmann 出版的934頁EDA教科書等)、20個美國專利和7個中華民國專利(其中15項授權或先期技轉給業界使用)，約400篇的ACM/IEEE期刊和會議論文。他名列2026年4月首次公布的EDA名人堂全球第一名(頂尖會議DAC和ICCAD和頂尖期刊TCAD和TODAES共計發表283篇(現發表298篇))，終身和單年全球前2%頂尖科學家(史丹福大學研究資料)，ScholarGPS 將他列為全球終身 EDA 影響力排名第 8 位（前 0.06%），是唯一進入前 0.5% 的台灣學者。其近五年論文引用數曾名列微軟Academic Search Database 的Hardware & Architecture 領域全球超過四萬名學者中的第一名(2010/2011; 此系統於2011年2月關閉)。他榮獲14項最佳論文獎（包括2025年ICCAD、2017年DAC、2010年ICCD和1995年ICCD最佳論文獎）、2007年ICCAD Margarida Jacome教授紀念獎和2020年ASP-DAC多產作者獎(台灣第一)。他在EDA領域兩大頂級會議---2025年ICCAD（1078篇投稿）和2017年DAC（約700篇全文投稿）---均榮獲第一名最佳論文獎，使他成為台灣唯一在這兩大會議63年和44年歷史上均獲此殊榮的學者。他榮獲第五十屆 DAC 四項研究紀錄獎，包含第五個十年2004-2013全球最多論文獎；現為DAC 63年史上最多產論文作者，累計發表107篇DAC論文; DAC論文發表連續長度第一名，目前29年(1999年迄今)；ACM/IEEE EDA競賽24次獲前三名，有八次冠軍；超過20次ACM/IEEE 會議最佳論文獎提名，包含 DAC 6 次 (+ 5篇 Best-in-Track 論文)、ICCAD 6 次 (+ 5篇 Best-in-Track 論文)、TCAD 2 次和ISPD 5 次。FPGA Switch Module 的研究論文曾列 ACM TODAES 期刊第二高研究引用論文長達二十餘年。其於2000年發表的B*-tree平面規劃(floorplanning)表示法和2011年發表的weighted-average (WA)電路擺置(placement)導線模型，當年皆獲DAC最佳論文獎提名，現為學術界和產業界晶片布局設計工具最有效常用的技術，為近年所有相關EDA競賽冠軍所採用的方法(五次floorpalnning和四次placement競賽)。B*-tree 成為教科書的經典內容、表列於國際大廠(例如，華為)招募電路布局設計工程師所需備的核心技術、設計工具(Intel AI Lab等)和最近五次相關 floorplanning 國際競賽冠軍隊伍所採用的方法。WA擺置導線模型為當今最佳技術，獲多家公司和學界團隊採用，例如 Google 的 AlphaChip (用於其TPU和Axion晶片設計；Analysts at D.A. Davidson估計 TPU 市場價值約48億至358億美元)、NVIDIA 的 AutoDMP、NTUplace (臺灣大學)、ePlace/RePlace (UCSD)、DREAMPlace (UT-Austin和北京大學)、FuzhouPlace (福州大學和復旦大學)和最近四次placement競賽等。
張教授曾獲多項教學與研究獎，包含臺灣大學教學傑出獎(top 1% 最高榮譽，兩次十年，2020年起為終身傑出教師)、優良教學獎(九次)和旺宏電子講座教授 (2015)、教育部學術獎(2021)、科技部研究傑出獎(三次獲滿九年；2007, 2010-2013, 2013-2016)和特約研究員(兩期六年獲滿；2016-2019, 2019-2022)/傑出特約研究員(2023)、2023年中國電機工程學會電機工程獎章(學會最高榮譽)和2009年傑出電機工程教授獎、有庠科技講座「資通訊科技講座」(2022)、潘文淵文教基金會傑出研究獎(2020)、東元獎 (2017)、IBM Faculty Awards (三次；2010, 2012, 2013)、Google Gifts (2023和2024)、美光優良教師獎(2018)等。
除曾任IEEE CEDA總裁外，他也曾擔任候任總裁(2018/2019)、技術活動副總裁(2014/2015)和會議副總裁(2016/2017)、IEEE 總會 Ad Hoc Committee 委員和 Smart Cities 指導委員 (Steering Committee)。張教授為台灣首位頂尖期刊IEEE TCAD 副編輯 (2008-2013)。 其在1999年起擔任教育部教改計畫EDA競賽主席和EDA聯盟召集人，創辦各項影響深遠的EDA競賽和學術推廣活動，領導台灣團隊在國際舞台上發光發熱，大幅提升台灣的國際影響力和知名度。例如，其於1999年創辦的EDA競賽，現已成為在 ICCAD 舉辦的國際最大EDA競賽，近年每年吸引超過200 個國際團隊參賽；其所帶領的EDA 課程改進計畫，已衍生出受國際學界和業界歡迎和採用的934頁EDA教科書；其於2005年起推動的EDA頂尖國際會議論文倍增計畫，使台灣於2006--2023年間每年在最頂尖EDA國際會議 DAC 和 ICCAD 的合併論文發表數名列全球前三名，而臺灣大學在近二十年來有十四年皆為全球各機構第一名；其於2007年推動的CADathlon 培訓計畫，已使台灣成為ACM CADathlon Contest的最大贏家，台灣共計獲得十二屆冠軍，其中臺灣大學獲得九屆，遠超過其他各校。由於他對全球EDA領域的傑出貢獻和影響，他最近接受的採訪刊登在IEEE CEDA旗艦雜誌《IEEE Design & Test》2025年6月刊上，使他成為首位在該雜誌上被專訪的台灣學者。
張教授和業界互動密切，現任聯發科技獨立董事，曾任創惟科技獨立董事、智原科技、瑞昱半導體和聯發科技技術顧問。其團隊所開發的EDA設計工具，已經兩次商品化成功，兩次皆為EDA國際第一大廠Synopsys (新思科技)所併購，為國內極少數的成功案例。其NTUplace3電路擺置器於2008年成為思源科技的暢銷工具Laker Custom Digital Placer，對其在2012年以新臺幣122億售予Synopsys有重要貢獻；NTUplace4擺置器為史上唯一三大EDA競賽冠軍，為2015年合創至達科技MaxPlace的核心引擎，當今頂尖電路擺置工具，至達於2020年起獲利，並獲瑞鼎和聯發科投資，於2023年為Synopsys併購。他曾與20多家公司合作進行研發項目，產學合作總額超過1.7億新台幣，技術授權收入超過1800萬新台幣(聯發科技於2026年3月向臺大提出超過3000萬台幣技轉WA擺置導線模型)。
張耀文現為臺灣大學終身特聘教授 (2011-2013 為特聘教授; 2013起為終身特聘教授)兼電機資訊學院院長 (2018-now)。曾擔任臺灣大學副教務長和教學發展中心主任 (2016-2018)、臺灣大學數位學習中心創始主任、臺灣大學電機資訊學院副院長 (2012-2016)、電子所所長(2010-2013)、副所長(2008-2010)和臺灣大學技轉組組長(2007-2008)、美國麻省理工學院訪問學者(2014)和日本早稻田大學客座教授(2004-2010)。
EE Times Citation (by Colin Johnson on 5/15/2013): `Taiwan: Microelectronics expertise widens’: “Taiwan's success so far has been in large part due to electronic design automation (EDA) expertise, where it has only been outperformed by the U.S. for the last five years -- as measured by number of research papers its presented at the IEEE's Design Automation Conference (DAC) and International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD). (Yao-Wen) Chang is typical at NTU, a microelectronics pioneer in EDA, due to receive four separate awards at DAC 2013’s 50th anniversary celebration next month,…”
EE Times Citation (by Colin Johnson on 4/6/2015): ‘The Best and Brightest Worldwide’: "The best engineering minds on the planet compete each year in the ACM's ISPD design contest, which was won this year by the National Taiwan University."
EE Times Citation (4/13/2011): ‘ISPD spots 3D, maskless-lithography trends’: “Starting this year, ISPD will initiate another tradition by introducing commemorative sessions to honor respected pioneers in the PD field, to trace their contributions in shaping the PD landscape, to explore future directions following their footsteps,” said Yao-Wen Chang, a professor at National Taiwan University and general chair of ISPD 2011.
EE Times Citation (4/18/2008):
"how the Taiwanese beat both the US and Europeans in the ISPD Global Routing Contest…"
EDACafe Citation (11/20/2007): ‘International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) Witnesses Global Expansion Through Asian Leadership and Participation’: “ICCAD 2007 saw increasing participation of leading researchers…, with particular emphasis on Taiwan… This year’s CADathlon featured students from NTU as winners of both the 1st and 2nd places,… the 1st time a non-US team won the champion and the 1st time the top two teams came from the same institution… These outstanding wins are the result of multiple initiatives driven from Taiwan... Professor Yao-Wen Chang, who chairs the Design Automation and Test sub-initiative, leveraged the CADathlon to evaluate the effectiveness of local VLSI and SoC education programs, aimed at cultivating graduate students to meet the strong demand of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan… ICCAD accepted 16 papers from Taiwan… 2nd worldwide… NTU received 2 best paper award candidates…1 memorial award… a first for any single institution at ICCAD.”