Ronald Y. Chang received the B.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University in 2000, the M.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California (USC) in 2008, all in Electrical Engineering. He has gained extensive academic and industrial experiences from conducting research at USC and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in Cambridge, MA, where he visited from January to August 2008. His thesis research, with focus on the analysis and design of wireless OFDM/OFDMA networks, has established great academic as well as industrial values. His general research interests include radio resource allocation, MAC protocol design and performance analysis, routing, and cross-layer consideration for wireless networks.

His broad interests span many areas beyond his profession. In his leisure time, he enjoys everything from reading and writing to meditation and yoga. He is particularly interested in religions, philosophy, human languages, and Oriental Medicine. He has been self-teaching in many of these disciplines and has enjoyed every minute of it.

He cares about the environment, people, and the world. As a writer, researcher and meditator, he has always seen writing, research and meditation as practical skills that will allow him to bring positive change to this very needy world. He has dedicated himself to practicing and increasing public awareness on such issues as global warming and world peace. He is an advocate of building a better world through inner cultivation. He has taught more than 50 students meditation and helped them apply the calming mindset to daily life. His dedication to translating, editing, and proofreading manuscripts has led to the birth of a published book on religion and philosophy, available for check-out at many public libraries in the U.S.

He is happily married to Yi-ping Chang, a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and a certified Hatha Yoga teacher in the U.S.