• Organizer: Empower Vocational Education Research Center, NTUST
• Date: September 23, 2026, 9:30 AM–12:30 PM
• Presenter: Tien-Chih Chang, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, NTUST
• Faculty Advisor: Professor Chia-Yu Wang
• Target Audience: Graduate students and researchers interested in applying large language models (LLMs) to qualitative data analysis.
• Workshop Description: This hands-on workshop introduces the use of large language models (LLMs) to support open and axial coding of qualitative interview and discourse data within a computational grounded theory approach. Participants may work with their own de-identified qualitative data or use a sample dataset provided during the workshop.

• Organizer: Empower Vocational Education Research Center, NTUST
• Date: November 19, 2025; May 13 & 22, 2026; June 05, 2026
• Presenter: Tien-Chih Chang, Doctoral Student, Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, NTUST
• Faculty Advisor: Professor Chia-Yu Wang
• Target Audience: Graduate students and researchers seeking an introductory, hands-on understanding of epistemic network analysis.

• Part 1: September 18, 2025
• Part 2: September 25, 2025
• Organizer: Department of Graphic Arts and Communications, National Taiwan Normal University
• Location: Department of Graphic Arts and Communications, National Taiwan Normal University
• Presenter: Tien-Chih Chang, Doctoral Student, Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, NTUST
• Target Audience: Faculty members, graduate and college students interested in quantitative ethnography and epistemic network analysis.

• Organizer: Yilan Experimental Education Center (Taiwan)
• Location: Luodong Cultural Working House - Yilan Youth Hub
• Date: March 2025
• Target Audience:  Elementary teachers of all subjects seeking to integrate AI and technology into their workflow.

• Location: National Miao-Li Agricultural & Industrial Vocational High School
• Date: April 2025
• Target Audience:  School Counselors

• Location: NTUST, Taiwan
• Date: June 2025
• Link: Slides
• Target Audience: EVERC Center members, beginners interested in data analysis and topic modeling, and teachers or students wanting to learn practical Python skills.

Teaching Experience

• Course: Metaverse-Based Interviewing and Helping Practice
• Institution: NTUST
• Period: 2025.09 - Present
• Responsibilities: Co-developed the course with a counselor from the Center for General Education, integrating face-to-face instruction with the MetaForest metaverse counseling education platform. Responsible for metaverse-based curriculum design and instruction, with a focus on interview and helping skills, avatar-mediated practice, and personality analysis.

• Instructor: Professor Chia-Yu Wang 
• Period: Feb 2026 - Jun 2026 
• Responsibilities: Supported this graduate-level research methods course through hands-on workshops on Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) and LLM-assisted computational grounded theory for qualitative analysis, while providing learning support for students. Also assisted in preparing a PBL innovative teaching project proposal.

• Instructor: Professor Chia-Yu Wang 
• Period: Sep 2024 - Dec 2024; Feb 2025 - Jun 2025; Sep 2026 - Present 
• Responsibilities: Supported this teacher education course with a focus on AI-assisted curriculum and instructional design. Co-developed four AI-integrated lessons and guided pre-service teachers in collaborating with AI on action and literacy-oriented teaching plan design. Also assisted in preparing an NTUST Smart Teacher Education project integrating AI into teaching.

• Instructor: Professor Chia-Yu Wang 
• Period: Sep 2024 - Dec 2024; Sep 2026 - Present 
• Responsibilities: Supported PBL-based learning by guiding students from diagnosing learning difficulties and designing scaffolds to theoretically evaluating their designs. Developed discussion worksheets and assessment tools, facilitated group discussions, provided qualitative feedback, and documented students’ PBL learning processes and outcomes.

• Institution: Yilan Experimental Education Center, Yilan
• Period: 2022.01 - 2025.04
• Responsibilities: Started as a volunteer to later organize a team of instructors, delivering over 50 courses for high school and junior high school students on topics including podcasting, no-code development, and design thinking, achieving a 95% student satisfaction rate.

• Institution: Ci-Xin Waldorf School, Yilan
• Period: 2018.04 - 2021.01
• Responsibilities: Served as a class teacher, taught physics, mathematics, and computer science, and managed library affairs.

Research & Project Experience

• Institution: Empower Vocational Education Research Center, NTUST
• Period: 2023.08 - 2024.07
• Responsibilities: Responsible for research promotion, center space setup, and website development.

Academic Service

• Organizer: Empower Vocational Education Research Center, NTUST
• Description: Convened local and international scholars to share the latest research and applications of digital technology, AI, affective computing, and collaborative learning in digital education.
• Location: NTUST, Taiwan

• Organizer: Empower Vocational Education Research Center, NTUST
• Description: Organized a four-day conference featuring scholars from South Africa, Thailand, South Korea, and Taiwan. Topics included adaptive digital learning, educational robotics, sustainable employability, and metaverse counseling, aiming to foster international academic exchange and enhance research capabilities.
• Location: NTUST, Taiwan