Mark L. Chang, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
1000 Olin Way
Needham, MA 02492
Room 357 in the Olin Center
mark.chang at the.obvious.domain.name
Mark received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. He received his M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Northwestern University and his B.S. from Johns Hopkins University. During his studies Mark earned an Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
Mark has conducted research in developing computer-aided design tools and methodologies for easier implementation of arithmetic hardware onto FPGA devices. His research interests include FPGA arithmetic and architecture, computer-aided design tools, reconfigurable computing and VLSI design.
Mark leads the Reconfigurable Systems Research Group at Olin.
Mark's personal interests include travel, playing musical instruments, tinkering with electronics and anything and everything to do with cars.
My CV is available in PDF format: Mark L. Chang's CV
Presentations
- A Beginner's Guide to Bad Engineering Presentations
- More presentations available on my research page
Publications
- M. L. Chang, Scott Hauck, “Précis: A Design-Time Precision Analysis Tool”, IEEE Design & Test of
Computers, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 349-361, July-August 2005. - M. L. Chang, Variable Precision Analysis for FPGA Synthesis, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington,
Department of Electrical Engineering, 2004. (PDF) - M. L. Chang, Scott Hauck, “Automated Least-Significant Bit Datapath Optimization for FPGAs”, IEEE Symposium
on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2004. (PDF) - M. L. Chang, Scott Hauck, “Least-Significant Bit Optimization Techniques for FPGAs”, poster presented at
ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, February, 2004. - M. L. Chang, Scott Hauck, “Variable Precision Analysis for FPGA Synthesis”, Earth Science Technology Conference,
June, 2003. - M. L. Chang, Scott Hauck, “Précis - A Design-Time Precision Analysis Tool”, Earth Science Technology Conference, June, 2002.
- M. L. Chang and Scott Hauck, “Précis: a design-time precision analysis tool,” IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pp. 229-238, 2002. (PDF)
- M. L. Chang, Adaptive Computing in NASA Multi-Spectral Image Processing, M.S. Thesis, Northwestern University,
Dept. of E.C.E., December, 1999. (PDF) - M. L. Chang, S. Hauck, “Adaptive Computing in NASA Multi-Spectral Image Processing”, Military and Aerospace
Applications of Programmable Devices and Technologies International Conference, 1999. - P. Banerjee, A. Choudhary, S. Hauck, N. Shenoy, C. Bachmann, M. Chang, M. Haldar, P. Joisha, A. Jones, A.
Kanhare, A. Nayak, S. Periyacheri, M. Walkden, “MATCH: A MATLAB Compiler for Adaptive Computing
Systems”, Northwestern University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Report CPDC-TR-9908-013, 1999