Ming-Ching Chang

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Office: 1400 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA

Ming-Ching Chang is an Associate Professor with tenure (since Fall 2022) at the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2016 to 2018. He was an Adjunct Professor with the Computer Science Department from 2012-2016. During 2008-2016, he was a Computer Scientist at GE Global Research Center. He was an Assistant Researcher at the Mechanical Industry Research Labs, Industrial Technology Research Instutite (ITRI) at Taiwan from 1996 to 1998.

Dr. Chang received his Ph.D. degree in the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems (LEMS), School of Engineering, Brown University in 2008. He received his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) in 1998 and B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1996, both from National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Dr. Chang’s research interests include video analytics, computer vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Chang has published over 70 refereed journal and conference papers. Dr. Chang’s research projects are funded by DARPA, IARPA, NIJ, VA, GE Global Research, Kitware Inc., and University at Albany - SUNY.

Dr. Chang is a senior member of IEEE.

Selected Awards

  • Best Paper Runner-Up Award , IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Systems (AVSS) 2025
  • Best Paper Award , ECCV Beyond Euclidean Workshop (BEW): Hyperbolic and Hyperspherical Learning for Computer Vision, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
  • 2nd Place Winner , IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Grand Challenge , Multi-Modal Video Reasoning and Analyzing Competition (MMVRAC), Animal Action Recognition 2024
  • Best Student Paper Award , IEEE Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR) 2023
  • Best Paper Award , National Conference on Web Intelligence and Applications (NCWIA), Taiwan 2021
  • Honorary Mention Award , IEEE Smart World NVIDIA AI City Challenge 2017
  • GE Belief - Stay Lean and Go Fast Management Award 2015

Selected Publications

  1. AAAI
    A New Benchmark and Model for Challenging Image Manipulation Detection
    Zhenfei Zhang, Mingyang Li, and Ming-Ching Chang
    In AAAI, 2024
  2. CVPRW
    The 7th AI City Challenge
    Milind Naphade, Shuo Wang, David C. Anastasiu, and 14 more authors
    In CVPR Workshop on AI City Challenge, 2023
  3. Inferring Colloidal Interaction from Scattering by Machine Learning
    C.-H. Tung, S.-Y. Chang, M.-C. Chang, and 4 more authors
    Elsevier Carbon Trends, 2023