張詠淳副教授

張詠淳 教授

Professor Yung-Chun Chang

大數據科技及管理研究所 所長 | Director
Graduate Institute of Data Science.
AI醫療研究中心副主任 | Deputy Director
TMU Research Center for AI in Medicine.
Ph.D., National Taiwan University

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Contact Information

  • Email: changyc@tmu.edu.tw
  • Tel:+886-2-6620-2589 #16105
  • 11F, No.301, Yuantong Rd., Zhonghe Dist., New Taipei City 235, Taiwan (Biomedical Building) College of Management, Institute of Data Science, Taipei Medical University, Shuang-Ho Campus
  • 235 新北市中和區圓通路301號 臺北醫學大學雙和校區 生醫大樓11樓
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Work Experience

  • Director, Graduate Institute of Data Science. (2025/08–present)
  • Visiting Professor, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. (2024/02–present)
  • Deputy Director, TMU Research Center for AI in Medicine. (2023/08–present)
  • Deputy Chief Data Officer, Office of Data Science. (2020/08–2025/02)
  • Associate Professor, Taipei Medical University, Graduate Institute of Data Science, Taiwan (2020/08–2023/07)
  • Assistant Professor, Taipei Medical University, Graduate Institute of Data Science, Taiwan (2017/08–2020/07)
  • Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan (2017/1–2017/7)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan (2016/08–2016/12)
  • Research Assistant, Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science, Taiwan (2010/01–2016/07)
  • Software Engineer, Academia Sinica, Institute of Physics, Taiwan (2008/01–2009/12)
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Honor and Awards

  • Future Tech Awards (2023)
  • Best Paper Award in NCS 2023 (2023)
  • TMU Annual Teacher Teaching Performance Award (2023)
  • 2021 Top 2 of JISE ANNUAL BEST REVIEWER AWARD (https://jise.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pages/jise/index.html#Announcements)
  • TMU Annual Teacher Teaching Performance Award (2020)
  • Best Paper Award in the domestic track of TAAI 2019 (2019)
  • Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Fellowship (acceptance rate: 6/181 = 3.31%) (2016/08–2017/07)
  • 2016 ACLCLP Doctoral Dissertation Award (2016)
  • Bronze medal 5x5 Shogi in TCGA 2016 computer game tournaments (2016)
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Vita

Dr. Yung-Chun Chang specializes in text mining, natural language processing, and related machine learning and speech recognition technologies. He excels in applying these technologies to address various domain-specific challenges, with primary research interests spanning intelligent healthcare, bioinformatics, business intelligence, and language comprehension. In 2016, Professor Chang was honored with the Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award from the Academia Sinica and the Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computational Linguistics. Beginning in 2017, he embarked on an academic career at Taipei Medical University, where he has authored numerous papers published in prestigious international journals and conferences, including TKDE, ACL, I&M, TM, HICSS, Bioinformatics, and JAMIA. His recent achievements in Clinical Natural Language Processing (ClinicalNLP) earned him the prestigious 2023 Future Technology Award. Furthermore, Professor Chang is passionate about teaching and has received several teaching awards. He has also guided his students to win numerous domestic and international awards, including second place in two tracks of the BioCreative 2022 International Biomedical Literature Text Mining Competition, a gold medal in the Taiwan AI EXPO competition, second place in the Coding101 competition, first place in the NTCIR FinArg 2023 competition, and the Innovation Award in the National Science Council's Undergraduate Research Program.

張詠淳博士專精於文字探勘與自然語言處理以及相關的機器學習與語言辨識技術，擅長將這些技術應用於解決不同領域的問題，主要研究領域為智慧醫療、生物資訊、商業智慧以及語言理解。張教授在2016年曾榮獲中研院博士後傑出研究獎以及計算語言學會博士論文獎。於2017年至臺北醫學大學從事教職，發表多篇國際頂尖期刊與會議論文，包含TKDE, ACL, I&M, TM, HICSS, Bioinformatics, JAMIA，近期臨床醫療之自然語言處理的成就獲得2023未來科技獎之殊榮。 此外，張教授熱愛教學，獲得許多教學獎項，也指導學生獲得許多國內外獎項，例如：國際生醫文獻自動探勘競賽BioCreative 2022兩項track的第二名、Taiwan AI EXPO大賽金獎、Coding101競賽第二名、NTCIR FinArg 2023 競賽第一名、國科會大專生專題研究計畫創新獎。