Invited Talk Abstract
Date: 16:10-17:10, January 23rd, 2019
Organizer: IEICE Kyushu Section
Cooperation: IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (APS) Fukuoka Chapter
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Japan ChapterndVenue: Lecture room 23, 2 building of Faculty of Engineering, Nagasaki University

SPEAKER:
Yang-Lang Chang 張陽郎
Professor and Department Chair of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology
Taipei Chapter Chair of IEEE GRSSTITLE: High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing
ABSTRACT: This talk presents recent progress in High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing and theirapplications. Technological advances in modern active and passive sensors with higher spectral, spatial and/ortemporal resolutions have resulted in a substantial increase in multidimensional data volume. This increase poses achallenge to remote sensing big data processing in a timelier fashion for environmental, commercial or military
applications. High-performance computing (HPC) is needed to process ever larger amounts of data and help
researchers make scientific breakthroughs in many areas of geoscience and remote sensing. Parallel, distributed andgrid computing facilities and algorithms have become indispensable tools to tackle the issues of processing massive
remote sensing data. In recent years, the graphics processing unit (GPU) has evolved into a highly parallel many-coreprocessor with tremendous computing power and high memory bandwidth to offer two to three orders of magnitude
speedup over the CPU. A cost-effective GPU-based computer has become an appealing alternative to an expensive
CPU-based computer cluster for many researchers performing various scientific and engineering applications. This talkaims to present state-of-the-art research in incorporating HPC facilities and algorithms for effective and efficient remotesensing applications. Some interesting examples of HPC remote sensing applications, developed recently by our lab,
will be illustrated in this talk.
BIOGRAPHY: Yang-Lang Chang received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University,Taiwan; his MS degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University; and his PhD degree in Computer Scienceand Information Engineering from the National Central University, Taiwan. He started his career with NDC IBM Taiwan
as a Hardware Design Engineer before joining ALCATEL as a Software Development Engineer. He was a Visiting
Scientist of Space Science and Engineering Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison and presently is Professor andDepartemant Chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Director of High Performance Computing and Deep
Learning Lab and NVIDIA-Taipei Tech Embedded GPU Joint Lab at National Taipei University of Technology. Dr. Changis a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of SPIE, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, the Chinese Society ofPhotogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and the Chinese Society of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. He has
been General Co-Chairs, Workshop Chair, Program Committee members and Session Chairs for several international
conferences. He serves as Guest Editors for the special issue on High Performance Computing in Earth Observation
and Remote Sensing in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, thespecial section of Journal of Applied Remote Sensing on High-Performance Computing in Applied Remote Sensing, andthe special issue of Remote Sensing on GPU Computing for Geoscience and Remote Sensing. He also served as aGeneral Secretary, and is currently the Chair of Taipei Chapter of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. His
research interests are in Remote Sensing, High Performance Computing, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Image
Processing, and SAR and hyperspectral images analysis.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Scott Yang-Lang Chang
Professor and Department Chair of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology
Taipei Chapter Chair of IEEE GRSS
No. 1, Sec. 3, Chung-Hsiao E. Rd., Taipei 10608, Taiwan
Tel.: 886-2-2771-2171 ext.2156
Fax: 886-2-2731-7187 | Email: ylchang@ntut.edu.tw
http://www.ntut.edu.tw/~ylchang/