Allan S. P. Chang received the B.E. (Hons.) degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1996, the M.S. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, NJ, USA, in 2005, all in electrical engineering.
From 2004 to 2007, he was a Research Associate with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and from 2007 to 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA, in 2009, where he is a Staff Engineer. His current research interests include micro-optical sensors, nanosensors and their applications in gas detection, environmental monitoring, and defense systems.