Ni-Bin Chang
Short Bio:
Ni-Bin Chang received his B.S. degree in 1983 from the National Chiao-Tung
University in Taiwan, and his Master’s and Ph.D. degree from Cornell
University, USA in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He is a professor
with Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University of
Central Florida (UCF).
At UCF, Ni-Bin Chang teaches courses in Introduction to Environmental
Engineering, Industrial Ecology, Advanced Hydrology, Hydraulics, Fluid
Mechanics, and Environmental and Water Resources Systems Analysis. He
is also with Stormwater Management Academy and actively involved in making
his Systems Engineering Research connected with higher education program
in the area of IT-centered and sustainability-based Water Resources and
Environmental Engineering. Research activities include development of
original computing applications in the area of evolutionary computing,
remote sensing and sensor technology, decision support system and artificial
intelligence, green materials and ecological engineering, low impact
development and stormwater management, watershed management, and on-site
wastewater treatment. Many current and previous projects lie on the interfaces
between these topics leading toward achieving the goals in the nexus
of resources management, technology integration, and engineering optimization.
Ni-Bin Chang has 117 peer-reviewed journal publications and 99 conference
papers up to 2007. He was one of the founders of International Society
of Environmental Information Management and the former editor-in-chief
of Journal of Environmental Informatics. Recently, he served as guest
editor for the Special Issue of the Journal of Environmental Management,
Journal of Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Practice Periodicals
of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, ASCE, and Stochastic
Environmental Research & Risk Assessment. He is also sitting in the
editorial board of Journal of Applied Remote Sensing as associate editor
(Official Journal of International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE)),
and board members of 9 international journals, including Journal of Environmental
Management, Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment,
Environmental Management, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Journal
of Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, Journal of Recent Patents
on Chemical Engineering, Journal of Information Technology Research,
The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management, and Journal of
the Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering.
Professional activities are an important part of Ni-Bin Chang’s
life. He is a member of fifteen international professional societies.
He is also active in the ASCE/EWRI conference and committees, where he
is the member in the ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing, Groundwater
Hydrology Task Committee, and Water Resources and Environmental Systems
Committee. He is on the boards of many regional and local committees,
such as Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (FCSHWM)
advisory board, teaching fellow of Florida Green Engineering Education
Program, and Chinese American Water Resources Association.
Link to personal homepage:
http://people.cecs.ucf.edu/chang/
Link to departmental homepage:
http://cee.ucf.edu/
Areas of specialization:
Decision support system, evolutionary computing, environmental planning
and management, water resources systems, low impact development, industrial
ecology