Education:

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, UCLA, In progress

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, UCLA, 2011

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University 2007

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Background Information

Yen-Chi Chang worked mainly on vehicle dynamics, evaluation and design during his undergraduate study in National Taiwan University. He also lead the fuel-cell scooter dynamic design team and participating in All-terrain vehicle riding comfort evaluation until 2007. He gained hardware design and integration design experience with HTC corp, in which he was in charged of cell phone structure design and production quality evaluations until 2009. After joining Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory in UCLA, he cooperates with the Crump Institute on developing an automated preclinical injection robot. This cooperation project has won the venture team competition and gained commercial attention from medical companies. He also lead the control development for the Scalable and Integrated Nano Manufacturing (SINAM) project, which develops nano-scale laser patterning technology and is a joint project by UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UNCC. He also studies constrained model predictive control theory and implement his development by precise multi-stage fast tool servo and contour tracking applications. He gains teaching experience by being teaching assistant for control theory classes both undergraduate and graduate level and laboratory classes

Current Proejct

1. Optimal Contour Tracking
2. Mouse tail surgical injection
3. Dual-stage fast tool servo
4. Nano-position Maskless Lithography

Patents

1. Yen-Chi Chang and Tseng-Ti Fu, "The Balance and Support Device for Scooters", Patent M325964, Taiwan
2. Int'l Patent (WO 2013/049228 A1) for “A System For Vascular Access In Laboratory Animals

Related Publications

1. Y.C. Chang, B.N. Berry-Pusey, T.C. Tsao, and A. F. Chatziioannou, “Real-Time Image Processing for Locating Veins in Mouse Tails, ” DSCCMOVIC, Palo Alto, California, 2013
2. B.N. Berry-Pusey, Y.C. Chang, S.W. Prince, K. Chu, J. David, R. Taschereau, R.W. Silverman, D. Williams, W. Ladno, D. Stout, T.C. Tsao, and A. F. Chatziioannou, “A Semi-automated vascular Access System (VAS) for Preclinical Models,” Physics in Medicine and Biology (Featured Article)
3. Y.C. Chang, B.N. Berry-Pusey, A.F. Chatziioannou, and Tsu-Chin Tsao, UCLA, “Automated Tail Injection Robot”, Tech Forum, April/2012.
4. B.N. Berry-Pusey, Y.C. Chang, S.W. Prince, K. Chu, W. Ladno, J. David, R. Silverman, R. Taschereau, D. Stout, T.C. Tsao, and A.F. Chatziioannou, "A semi-automated vascular access system for preclinical models", NIH NIBIB Training grantees meeting, Bethesda, MD, June 2012 (poster)
5. B.N. Berry-Pusey, Y.C. Chang, S.W. Prince, K. Chu, W. Ladno, J. David, R. Silverman, R. Taschereau, D. Stout, T.C. Tsao, and A. Chatziioannou, “A Vascular Access System for Preclinical Models”, WMIC 2012, Dublin, 2012.
6. Y.C. Changand T.C. Tsao, “Feedfoward Model Predictive Control for Dual-Stage Fast Tool Servo with Realistic Constraints”, DSCCMOVIC, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2012
7. B.N. Berry-Pusey, Y.C. Chang, W. Ladno, D.A. Williams, R. W. Silverman, R. Taschereau, D.B. Stout, T.C. Tsao, and A.F. Chatziioannou, "A System for Vascular Access in Preclinical Models", SNM 2011, San Antonio, 2011.
8. Yen-Chi Chang and Tseng-Ti Fu, "A Useful Tire Model  for ATV Ride Performance on rough roads"", SAE 2010-01-1922, 2010