Hua-Hua Chang

After earning a diploma in mathematics at East China Normal University in 1980, Chang moved to the United States to pursue masters and doctoral studies in statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[1][2] His 1992 doctoral dissertation, Some Theoretical and Applied Results Concerning Item Response Theory Model Estimation, was advised by William Fleming Stout.[3] Chang then worked as research scientist for the Educational Testing Service between 1992 and 1999.[1][4] Between 1997 and 1998, he was an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[1][4] From 1999 to 2001, Chang was affiliated with the National Board of Medical Examiners, then returned to academia, joining the University of Texas at Austin faculty.[1][4] In 2005, Chang returned to UIUC, as a professor of educational psychology and within the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies until 2018.[1][5] That year, Chang was appointed Charles R. Hicks Chair Professor at the Purdue University College of Education, as well as a courtesy professor of statistics.[1][4]

Chang succeeded Mark L. Davison as chief editor of the academic journal Applied Psychological Measurement.[6] The first issue of Chang's editorial tenure was published in November 2012.[7] From 2012 to 2013, Chang was president of the Psychometric Society.[8]

Chang was elected to fellowship of the American Educational Research Association in 2010,[9] and was awarded the AERA's E. F. Lindquist Award in 2017.[10][11] The American Statistical Association elected Chang to fellowship in 2019.[12] Chang received the 2021 Award for Career Contributions from the National Council on Measurement in Education.[13]