Born in 1958, Chang grew up in a fishing village of Keelung, Taiwan.
[1] After junior high school, he gave up "the chance to study at the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University (國立臺灣師範大學附屬高級中學|師大附中) and chose to join the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan Institute of Technology (now the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 國立臺灣科技大學) for professional training.
"[2] After the national compulsory military service, Chang spent a year on professional practice.
[3] Chang then switched to the fields of computation in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學), where he received a M.S.C.
[4] His endeavor in Elearning has also won him a patent in "The Software Structure for Interactive Learning on the Internet" (網際網路互動式教學軟體架構) in Taiwan.