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    Biography

    Prof. Victor Chang is a Professor of Business Analytics based 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, between September 2019 and mid-May 2022. He has deep knowledge and extensive experience in AI-oriented Data Science and has made significant contributions in multiple disciplines. He has been the Fellow of Higher Education Academy since July 2012. He's the Winner of the Inspirational Individual of the Year 2024, UK National IT Award. He has been awarded the Fellow status by the British Computer Society(BCS) since January 2024, Fellow status, by the Institution of Engineering and Technology(IET) since January 2025, Fellow status, by the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and Chartered Management and Business Educator (CMBE), by the Chartered Association of Business Schools since Feb 2025.

    He has been well-established in research, funding and scholarly achievements. He has been well-known for AI, Data/Business Analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) for Healthcare, Finance/Business and Cybersecurity. His contributions and offers for funding and research may include:

    • AI, Data/Business Analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) for Healthcare.
    • AI, Data/Business Analytics and IoT for Finance, Business, BI and Fintech.
    • AI, Data/Business Analytics and IoT for Cybersecurity
    • AI, Data/Business Analytics and IoT for Industry, Service sector, Government and Higher Education.
    • AI, Data/Business Analytics and IoT for social networks, weather studies, smart manufacturing, geo-economics, smart cities etc.
    • Modern ICT, including Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing and 5G/6G - digital transformation, technology adoption, frameworks, recommendations, impacts and case studies.

    His recent interests include Generative AI/Large Langauge Models (LLMs) and their impacts. He has demonstrated innovation and contributions to the domains above and has completed some of his projects on https://www.youtube.com/@novelresearchandtalks2144/videos to demonstrate his contributions and impacts. 

    Prof Chang is one of the most highly cited researchers apart from being an international leading active scientist with a premier reputation and track records. He worked on every project with details known. He is a highly efficient, effective, organized, responsible and self-disciplined scholar to make things happen. His most recent publications can be viewed: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=IqIYZ14AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdateand his backgrounds are also available: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8012-5852 . Some of his current/previous work (in US English): http://www.iotbds.org/Documents/big_data_project_description_update.pdf

    His current focus is on funding and building more funded projects between academia and between academia and industry. Please contact him if there are suitable funding opportunities that match his skills/experiences and your needs. 

    Summary of Research Interests

    · Data Science, business analytics and research for multiple disciplines (finance, healthcare, security, weather studies, smart cities, geo-economics, education, e-manufacturing), Industry 4.0/5.0, e-Learning (all these work well for Industry 4.0/5.0)

    · Digital transformation, technology adoption, frameworks, recommendations, impacts and case studies for the use of IT/ICT, IT/ICT Management, MIS, and Business for IT/high-tech, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, security, IS/IM research (all these work well for Industry 4.0/5.0). He's focused on healthcare, finance/business/service and cybersecurity domains.

    · Funding, funded projects and building more funded projects with synergy between academia, and between academia and industry. 

    Academic Achievements

    Within 4 years, Prof Chang completed Ph.D. (CS, Southampton) and PGCert (Higher Education, Fellow, Greenwich) while working on several projects at the same time. Before becoming an academic, he achieved 97% on average in 27 IT certifications. He won a 2001 full Scholarship, a European Award on Cloud Migration in 2011, IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015, best papers in 2012, 2015 and 2019, the 2016 European award: Best Project in Research, 2016-2018 SEID Excellent Scholar, Suzhou, China, Outstanding Young Scientist award in 2017, 2017 special award on Data Science, 2017-2023 INSTICC Service Awards, 2024 INSTICC Ten-Year Special Service Award, Talent Award Suzhou 2019, Top 2% Scientist 2018/2019, 2019/2020 & 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023 & 2023/2024, the most productive AI-based Data Analytics Scientist between 2010 and 2019, Highly Cited Researcher 2021, top UK 125 Compute Scientists, and numerous awards mainly since 2011. 

    Prof Chang was involved in different projects worth more than £14 million in Europe and Asia. He leads and directs multi-million projects, demonstrating innovation, leadership, research contributions, and significant impacts across several countries. He has published 3 books as the sole author and the editor of 2 books on Cloud Computing and related technologies. He published 1 book on web development, 1 book on mobile apps and 1 book on Neo4j. He gave 57 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.

    External Roles and Professional Activities

    Prof. Victor Chang is a visiting scholar/Ph.D. examiner at several universities, an Editor-in-Chief of IJOCI & OJBD journals, former Editor of FGCS, Associate Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE TSC, JGIM, Expert Systems, IJBSR, IJEBM & Cyber Security & Apps. He's also an Editor of Information Fusion, IDD and Scientific Reports journal, founding chair of two international workshops and founding Conference Chair of IoTBDS http://www.iotbd.org and COMPLEXIS http://www.complexis.org between Year 2015/2016 and Year 2024 and FEMIB femib.scitevents.org between Year 2018/2019 and 2024. He is a founding Conference Chair of IIoTBDSC http://iiotbdsc.com/ (since Dec 2019) and AARNZ http://www.aarnz.com/ (since Feb 2024).

    PhD and Research Opportunities

    For hardworking and talented students, please write to Prof Victor Chang. He will build up a dynamic, efficient, collaborative and active research team getting funding and publications. Prof Chang's former PhD/MRes/MSc/BSc/BA graduates can always provide detailed testimonials on his resourcefulness, commitment, right types of help and supervision outputs for his students.

     

    Education/Academic qualification

    PhD, PhD Computer Science, University of Southampton

    1 Oct 200930 Sept 2013

    PG Cert, PGCert in Higher Education, University of Greenwich

    1 Aug 201115 Jul 2012

    MBA, MBA Technology Management

    19 Sept 200231 Jan 2004

    MPhil, MPhil in Engineering (e-Learning), Cambridge University Engineering Department

    1 Oct 200119 Sept 2002

    BSc, BEng (Telecom) and BSc (Physics and Computing), University of Sydney

    26 Feb 199630 Jun 2000

    External positions

    CMBE

    11 Feb 2025 → …

    Fellow status, RSA (FRSA)

    3 Feb 2025 → …

    Fellow status, IET (FIET)

    22 Jan 2025 → …

    Fellow status, BCS (FBCS)

    9 Jan 2024 → …

    Visiting Professor (non-stipendiary), University of Southampton

    1 Dec 2021 → …

    Founding Conference Chair of IIoTBDSC and AARNZ (funded by event sponsors)

    1 Dec 2019 → …

    Founding Conference Chair of IoTBDS, COMPLEXIS and FEMIB (funded by event sponsors)

    1 Jun 20151 May 2024

    Visiting Scientist (non-stipendiary), University of Southampton

    1 Dec 201330 Nov 2021

    PhD examiner of more than 10 universities globally

    1 Dec 2013 → …

    FHEA, Higher Education Academy

    Jul 2012 → …

    I&T Service Manager & IT Solutions Director, NHS

    21 Jul 200814 Feb 2011

    PI, Co-I, WP leader and key member of numerous projects

    1 Oct 2001 → …

    Keywords

    • Q Science (General)
    • Information Systems
    • Security
    • Risk Management
    • TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
    • Computer Science
    • AI
    • Analytics
    • Internet of Things

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