Chenming Chang

Chenming Chang is the Founder and CEO of PETcoil, a company developing a portable PET system for on-demand imaging at a fraction of the cost of existing PET/CT and PET/MRI products.12 He founded PETcoil in May 2019.1

Chang holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University, where he also worked as a Graduate Research Fellow from 2012 to 2019.1 During his time at Stanford, he led an interdisciplinary team developing the first radio-frequency (RF) penetrable positron emission tomography (PET) insert system for hybrid PET/MRI.1

His educational background includes:

• BS in Physics from National Tsing Hua University (2003-2007)
• MS in Physics from National Central University (2010-2012)
• Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Stanford Graduate School of Business (2018)1

Chang has received several honors and awards, including:

• Multiple NIH grants for PET insert technology development1
• Moses & Sylvia Greenfield Award for the best paper published in Medical Physics (2017)
• IEEE NSS/MIC Trainee Grants (2013, 2015, 2016)
• Stanford-Coulter Translational Research Grants (2017, 2018)1

Prior to his academic and entrepreneurial career, Chang served as a Second Lieutenant in the Taiwan Marine Corps from 2008 to 2009.1