Cheng-Shang Chang received the B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University", Taipei, Taiwan, in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University", New York, NY, in 1986 and 1989, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1989 to 1993 he was employed as a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. In 1993, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C., where he is a Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor. He is the author of the book Performance Guarantees in Communication Networks (Springer, 2000) and the coauthor of the book Principles, Architectures and Mathematical Theory of High Performance Packet Switches (Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2006). His current research interests are concerned with network science, high-speed switching, communication network theory, and mathematical modeling of the Internet.

Dr. Chang served as an Editor for Operations Research from 1992 to 1999, an Editor for the IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING from 2007 to 2009, and an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING from 2014 to 2017. He is currently serving as an Editor-at-Large for the IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING. He is a member of IFIP Working Group 7.3. He received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award in 1992, an IBM Faculty Partnership Award in 2001, and Outstanding Research Awards from the National Science Council, Taiwan, in 1998, 2000, and 2002, respectively. He also received Outstanding Teaching Awards from both the College of EECS and the university itself in 2003. He was appointed as the first Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Chair Professor in 2002. He received the Merit NSC Research Fellow Award from the National Science Council, R.O.C. in 2011. He also received the Academic Award in 2011 and the National Chair Professorship in 2017 from the Ministry of Education, R.O.C. He is the recipient of the 2017 IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award.