Biography:
Prof. Victor Chang is a Professor of Business Analytics at Operations and Information
Management, Aston Business School, Aston University UK, since mid-May 2022. He was
previously a Professor of Data Science and Information Systems at the School of
Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, UK. He has deep
knowledge and extensive experience in AI-oriented Data Science and has significant
contributions in multiple disciplines. Within 4 years, Prof Chang completed Ph.D. (CS,
Southampton) and PGCert (Higher Education, Fellow, Greenwich) while working for several
projects simultaneously. Before becoming an academic, he has achieved 97% on average in
27 IT certifications. He won 2001 full Scholarship, a European Award on Cloud Migration in
2011, IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015, best papers in 2012, 2015 and 2018, the
2016 European award: Best Project in Research, 2016-2018 SEID Excellent Scholar,
Suzhou, China, IEEE Outstanding Young Scientist award in 2017, IEEE 2017 special award
on Data Science, 2017-2023 INSTICC Service Awards, Talent Award Suzhou 2019, Top 2%
Scientist between 2019 and 2024, top Business Research Scholar, the most productive AI-
based Data Analytics Scientist between 2010 and 2019, Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Top
125 British Computing Scientists 2022-2024 and numerous awards mainly since 2011. Prof
Chang was involved in different projects worth more than £14 million in Europe and Asia. He
has led more than 4 major projects worth more than £3 million. He has published 3 books as
sole authors and the editor of 2 books on Cloud Computing and related technologies. He
published 1 book on web development, 1 book on mobile app and 1 book on Neo4j. He gave
54 keynotes at international conferences. He is widely regarded as one of the most active
and influential young scientists and experts in IoT/Data Science/Cloud/security/AI/IS, as he
has the experience to develop 10 different services for multiple disciplines. He is the
founding conference chair for IoTBDS, COMPLEXIS and FEMIB to build up and foster active
research communities globally with positive impacts and has recently stepped down.