Young-Hui Chang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0535

Phone:404-894-9993
Fax:404-894-9982
Location:GT: Centennial Research Building 354
E-Mail: yh.chang@ap.gatech.edu
URL: http://www.ap.gatech.edu/Chang/

Areas of Research

• Comparative biomechanics
• Sensorimotor integration during legged locomotion
• Passive dynamics during legged locomotion

Educational Background

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology, Emory University, 2001-2003
• Ph.D., Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2000
• M.S., Animal Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, 1996
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1993

Selected Awards

• NIH Individual Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2002-2003
• Assoc. of Korean Neuroscientists President's Postdoctoral Research Award, 2002
• NSF East Asia Summer Program Fellow, 2000

Selected Research Publications

• Chang, Y.-H., H.-W.C. Huang, C.M. Hamerski and R. Kram. The independent effects of gravity and inertia on running mechanics. J. Experimental Biology, 203: 229-238, 2000.
• Chang, Y.-H., J.E.A. Bertram and D.V. Lee. External forces and torques >generated by the brachiating white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar). American J. Physical Anthropology, 113: 201-216, 2000.
• Chang, Y.-H. and R. Kram. Metabolic cost of generating horizontal forces during human running. J. Applied Physiology, 86: 1657-1662, 1999.
• Kram, R., T.M. Griffin, J.M. Donelan and Y.-H. Chang. Force treadmill for measuring vertical and horizontal ground reaction forces. J. Applied Physiology, 85: 764-769, 1998.