Dr. Yung-Chun Chang specializes in text mining, natural language processing, and related machine learning and speech recognition technologies. He excels in applying these technologies to address various domain-specific challenges, with primary research interests spanning intelligent healthcare, bioinformatics, business intelligence, and language comprehension. In 2016, Professor Chang was honored with the Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award from the Academia Sinica and the Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computational Linguistics. Beginning in 2017, he embarked on an academic career at Taipei Medical University, where he has authored numerous papers published in prestigious international journals and conferences, including TKDE, ACL, I&M, TM, HICSS, Bioinformatics, and JAMIA. His recent achievements in Clinical Natural Language Processing (ClinicalNLP) earned him the prestigious 2023 Future Technology Award. Furthermore, Professor Chang is passionate about teaching and has received several teaching awards. He has also guided his students to win numerous domestic and international awards, including second place in two tracks of the BioCreative 2022 International Biomedical Literature Text Mining Competition, a gold medal in the Taiwan AI EXPO competition, second place in the Coding101 competition, first place in the NTCIR FinArg 2023 competition, and the Innovation Award in the National Science Council's Undergraduate Research Program.

Work Experience

• Visiting Professor, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. (2024/2–present)
• Deputy Director, TMU Research Center for AI in Medicine. (2023/8–present)
• Deputy Chief Data Officer, Office of Data Science. (2020/8–present)
• Associate Professor, Taipei Medical University, Graduate Institute of Data Science, Taiwan (2020/8–present)
• Assistant Professor, Taipei Medical University, Graduate Institute of Data Science, Taiwan (2017/8–2020/07)
• Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan (2017/1–2017/7)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan (2016/8–2016/12)
• Research Assistant, Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan (2010/1–2016/7)
• Software Engineer, Academia Sinica, Institute of Physics, Taiwan (2008/1–2009/12)

The NLP Lab at Taipei Medical University, under the leadership of Professor Yung-Chun Chang, focuses on cutting-edge research in natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, and the latest advancements in large language models. Our research is diverse, covering areas such as intelligent healthcare, bioinformatics, business intelligence, and language comprehension. We have earned notable accolades, including the Future Tech Award 2023, and have made impactful contributions to ClinicalNLP. Additionally, our lab’s work has been featured in well-known publications, and we have mentored students to achieve success in prominent national and international competitions.