Dr. Maiga Chang
Professor, Associate Dean, Research and Innovation
Contact information
E-mail: maigac@athabascau.ca
Phone: +1-866-9168646 (toll free)
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Dr. Maiga Chang
Dr. Maiga Chang
Professor, Associate Dean, Research and Innovation
Contact information
Email: maigac@athabascau.ca
Phone: +1-866-9168646 (toll free)
Dr. Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada. His research mainly focus on game-based learning, training and assessment; learning behaviour analysis; learning analytics and academic analytics; intelligent agent technology; health informatics; data mining; computational intelligence; natural language processing; artificial intelligence; museum education mobile learning and ubiquitous learning; healthcare technology, etc.
Dr. Chang is now Chair (2018~2023) of (TCLT), Executive Committee member of , Executive Committee member of (2017~2024, APSCE) and (2016~2025, GCSCE), Vice President (2022~) and Secretary and Treasurer (2019~2021) of (IASLE), and Chair (2021~2022) of Educational Activities Committee, IEEE Northern Canada Section. Dr. Chang is also a Steering Committee member (2020~) for International Conference on (ITS) and chair (2014~) of Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning special interest group (DIGITEL SIG) for IEEE TCLT.
Dr. Chang is editors-in-chief (2019~) of (an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's SSCI without publication fee), editor-in-chief (2014~) of (an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's ESCI, SCOPUS, EI), and editor-in-chief (2020~) of (an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's ESCI without publication fee).
Dr. Chang has given more than 110 talks and lectures in different events; He has participated in more than 310 international conferences and workshops as a Program Committee Member; and, he also has (co-)authored more than 227 edited books, book chapters, journal and international conference papers. He is an IEEE member since 1996.
Research interests
- Game-based Learning and Training
- Game-based Assessment (Stealth Assessment)
- Learning Behavior Analysis
- Learning Analytics and Academic Analytics
- Health Informatics
- Intelligent Agent
- Intelligent Tutor
- Virtual Companion
- Knowledge Structure
- Data Mining
- Computational Intelligence
- Affective Computing
- Natural Language Processing
- Evolutionary Computation
- Neural Networks
- Artificial Intelligence
- Ubiquitous Learning
- Mobile Learning
- Educational Robots
Educational credentials
- Ph.D, Electronic Engineering, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan. (1998.09-2002.07)
- Master, Information and Computer Engineering, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan (1996.09-1998.06)
- Bachelor, Information and Computer Engineering, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan (1992.09-1996.06)
Professional affiliations
- Executive Council Member, , July 2016~June 2025
- Executive Committee Member, , 2017~2024
- Chair, Awards/Recognition Committee, IEEE Northern Canada Section, 2021.
- Chair, Educational Activities Committee, IEEE Northern Canada Section, 2021.
- Executive Committee Member, IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities, 2021.
- Secretary and Treasurer, International Association of Smart Learning Environments, 2019~2021.
- Chair, (TCLT), June 2018~July 2023