Frederick Chang

Visiting Scholar

Biography

Frederick R. Chang is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Boston College. He is also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. He is the Founding Executive Director of the Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security and is a Senior Fellow in the John Goodwin Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs at SMU. He formerly served as Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at SMU, and as the Bobby B. Lyle Endowed Centennial Distinguished Chair in Cyber Security. Additionally, Chang’s career spans service in the private sector and in government including as the former Director of Research at the National Security Agency.

Dr. Chang was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2016. He currently serves on the Board of Reviewing Editors for PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) Nexus. He has served as Co-Chair of the Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and served as the Chair of the National Academies consensus study on Leveraging the Future Research and Development Ecosystem for the Intelligence Community. He has served as a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board, both of the National Academies. He also served as a member of the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency. He is the lead inventor on two U.S. patents and has appeared before Congress as a cybersecurity expert witness on multiple occasions. He has been awarded the National Security Agency Director’s Distinguished Service Medal.

Selected Publications

  • Chang, F.R. “Second-Order Effects of Artificial Intelligence.” Issues in Science and Technology 41, no. 1 (Fall 2024).
  • Chang, F.R. “A Tool With Limitations.” Issues in Science and Technology 40, no. 3 (Spring 2024).
  • Schiffer, P., and Chang, F.R. “Academia’s Openness Could Strengthen its Partnerships With the Intelligence Community.” Issues in Science and Technology 39, no. 4 (Summer 2023): 25–27.
  • Chang, F.R. Hacked but Don’t Know It: Confronting the Cybersecurity Challenge, in Fourteen Points for the Twenty-First Century: A Renewed Appeal for Cooperative Internationalism, ed. Richard H. Immerman and Jeffrey A. Engel (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2020), 261-71.
  • Beebe, N.L. and Chang, F.R. Cybersecurity: Revisiting the Definition of Insider Threat, The Bridge, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 12-19, Fall 2019.
  • Chang, F.R. (2009). Is Your Computer Secure? Science, 325, 550-551.
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