Wei-Tze (Aries) Chang

I am Aries.

In 2001, I enrolled in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Central University (NCU), specializing in Mechanics and Structural Engineering. While there, I researched optimization algorithms such as Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Discrete Lagrangian Method (DLM). In 2003, I obtained my Master of Engineering degree, after which I joined the Department of Civil Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU), specializing in Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE).

During my doctoral program, I researched the Discrete Element Simulation (DES) of Fluid-Solid Interaction (FSI) scenarios, explicitly focusing on concrete flow. Additionally, I worked on developing large-scale engineering software for High-Performance Computing (HPC) during that time. In early 2009, I successfully earned my Doctor of Engineering degree.

From 2009 to 2012, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at NTU. I continued my research in DES while working on current computing for service-oriented robot control programs in the Robotics Laboratory (R-Lab). In addition, I taught Engineering Graphics and Computer-Aided Drawing in the Department of Civil Engineering of Tamkang University (TKU). I also served as the secretary of the Taiwan International Group under the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-TWIG).

In the summer of 2012, I joined the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) under the National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) as an assistant research fellow, where my research was focused on supporting the domestic film and animation industry through fluid-solid coupling and particle simulation techniques. Due to family reasons, I moved to the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) under NARLabs in 2013. Here, I developed Particle-Based Methods (PBMs), such as the DEM, Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), and PeriDynamics (PD), for earthquake engineering applications.

In the summer of 2018, NCREE and the Department of Civil Engineering at NTU jointly established an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Center, the NCREE-NTUCE Joint AI Research Center (the AI Center). In 2019, I joined the AI Center as its executive secretary. I set up a high-performance platform for scientific computing and AI.

Now, I am an associate research fellow and adjunct assistant professor at the AI Center, NCREE, and NTU. I am responsible for teaching HPC-related courses and helping plan AI applications in civil engineering research. My primary research topics involved AI research in AI-enhanced structural nonlinear analysis, disaster-prevention-oriented digital twins, automated welding, volcanic monitoring, and multi-scale data fusion.