Program Manager
Defense Sciences Office
Dr. Nicholas Chang joined DARPA as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office in September 2023 and moved to the Defense Sciences Office as a program manager in April 2025. His research interests include advanced communication, sensing, and radar systems using novel techniques in signal processing, quantum sensing, metasurfaces, artificial intelligence, and control theory.
Before coming to DARPA, Chang was a director at Peraton Labs in the Wireless Networks and Systems department. He led multiple programs in multifunction and distributed resource management, signals intelligence, wireless communications, radio frequency machine learning, and multiple-antenna processing. Before that, he was a technical staff member in the Advanced Sensor Techniques Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he led the development and implementation of novel wireless communications and signal processing systems.
Education
- PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- MS, Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- BS, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University