Young-Hui Chang is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he directs the Comparative Neuromechanics Laboratory. He has used a comparative approach to investigate limb control in flamingos, gibbons, vampire bats, cats, rats, horses, and humans. In particular, he has focused on utilization of neuromechanical redundancy to reveal common compensatory principles in mammalian locomotion. Recent work includes the study of how locomotor tasks may be represented, adapted and generalized during locomotion.

Prof. Chang received his BS in mechanical engineering (’93) and MS in animal physiology (’96) from Cornell University. He received his PhD in integrative biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in neurophysiology at the Emory University School of Medicine before joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 2004. He is currently a professor and associate chair for faculty development in the School of Biological Sciences and serves on the executive board of the American Society of Biomechanics.