Dr. Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada and Honorary Chair Professor, Multidisciplinary Academic Research Center, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. He is IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Chang has been appointed as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2023 to 2025 (https://www.computer.org/profiles/maiga-chang) and also recently received Distinguished Researcher Award from Asia Pacific Society on Computers in Education (APSCE) in 2022 (https://new.apsce.net/apsce-award-winners/).
Dr Chang's research mainly focus on game-based learning, training and assessment; learning behaviour analysis; learning analytics and academic analytics; intelligent agent technology; health informatics; data mining; computational intelligence; natural language processing; artificial intelligence; museum education mobile learning and ubiquitous learning; healthcare technology, etc.
Dr. Chang is now Executive Committee member of IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities (https://www.computer.org/communities/special-technical-communities), Executive Committee member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2024, APSCE, https://www.apsce.net/) and Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025, GCSCE, http://gcsce.org/), Vice President (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE, http://iasle.net/), and Chair (2021~) of Educational Activities Committee, IEEE Northern Canada Section (https://northerncanada.ieee.ca/ncs-executives/). Dr. Chang is also a Steering Committee member (2020~) for International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS, https://iis-international.org/its/) and chair (2014~2021) of Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning special interest group (DIGITEL SIG) for IEEE TCLT.
He was Chair (2018~2023), executive chair (2016-2018) and new initiative chair (2015-2016) in the executive board of IEEE Technical Community of Learning Technology (TCLT, https://tc.computer.org/tclt), Secretary and Treasurer (2019~2021) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE), chair (2016-2017) and co-chair (2014-2015) for APSCE's Educational Gamification and Game-based Learning special interest group (EGG SIG), and Executive Council member (2015~2018) of Chinese Society for Inquiry Learning.
Dr. Chang is editors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technology & Society (https://www.j-ets.net/, an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's SSCI without publication fee), editor-in-chief (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (https://igi-global.com/ijdet, an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's ESCI, SCOPUS, EI), and editor-in-chief (2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology (https://tc.computer.org/tclt/bulletin/, an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's ESCI without publication fee).
He was executive editor of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, section editor of Education and Science (an Open Access journal was included in Web of Science's SSCI), advisory board member of Journal of Computers and Applied Science Education, and guest editor of International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (an SSCI Open Access journal), Multimedia Tools and Applications (an SCI journal), Mathematical Problems in Engineering (an SCI journal), Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (an Open Access journal published by Springer), and The Scientific World Journal (an SCI journal).
Dr. Chang also serves academic international conference events include being program chair (2015, 2018 to 2023) of International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE), program advising chair (2020~2023) and program committee chair (2019) International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, general program chair (2017~2023) of IEEE TCLT flagship conference International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (IEEE ICALT), executive chair (2020) of inaugural English Paper Track (EPT) of 24th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE), consultant (2020), IPC Coordination chair (2019) and co-chair (2018) of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE),and steering committee member (2017~2023) and advisory chair (2012~2016) of IADIS International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning.
He was general program chair (2019) International Conference on Technology for Education (IEEE T4E), executive program chair (2017) and program co-chair (2016) of Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE), steering committee (2017~2018) of International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, executive chair (2014) and co-chair (2013 and 2015) of GCCCE sub-conference on Joyful Learning and Society, executive chair (2014) and co-chair (2011, 2013, and 2015) of ICCE sub-conference on Game and Toy Enhanced Learning and Society, special area chair of pervasive education (2011~2016) of International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, general chair (2009), program chair (2011) and advisory board (2013) of International Conference on E-learning and Games (Edutainment), and local chair (2008) of IEEE Internationa Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning.
Dr. Chang has given more than 150 talks and lectures in different events; He has participated in more than 310 international conferences and workshops as a Program Committee Member; and, he also has (co-)authored more than 255 book chapters, journal and international conference papers. He is an IEEE member for twenty-six years since 1996 and also a member of ACM (2001-2017), AAAI (since 2001-2017), INNS (2004-2018), and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society.
