Chuan-Yu Chang received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, in 1995, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 2000. From 2001 to 2002, he was in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Shu-Te University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. From 2002 to 2006, he was in the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan, where he has been with the Department of Computer and Communication Engineering. His current research interests include neural networks and their applications in medical image processing, wafer defect inspections, digital watermarking and pattern recognition. In the above areas, he has authored or coauthored more than 150 publications in journals and conference proceedings. He is the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Tainan Chapter.