Gary Jing Chuang is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU), Taiwan. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from National Tsing Hua University, where he conducted graduate research under the supervision of Professor Chun Chen Liao.

Dr. Chuang gained extensive international research experience through academic appointments in the United States. He was a graduate researcher in the laboratory of Professor Larry E. Overman at the University of California, Irvine, and later a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Tobias Ritter at Harvard University. He also completed postdoctoral research at National Tsing Hua University under Professor Chun Chen Liao.

Dr. Chuang joined Chung Yuan Christian University in 2011 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015 and Full Professor in 2021. His research focuses on photoinduced rearrangement reactions, aerobic oxidation processes, bimetallic catalysis, and the synthesis of natural products, with an emphasis on reaction development and mechanistic understanding.

In recognition of his academic contributions, Dr. Chuang received the Asian Core Program (ACP) Lectureship Awardsin 2016 and 2017 and the CYCU Excellence Teaching Award in 2017. His work integrates organic synthesis, photochemistry, and metal catalysis to develop new methodologies for constructing structurally complex molecules.

The research activities in our laboratory focus on the development of novel synthetic methodologies based on photochemistry, radical processes, and catalytic reactions. We are particularly interested in light-driven skeletal rearrangements and functional group remodeling as powerful strategies for constructing molecular architectures that are difficult to access using conventional thermal methods.

A central platform in our laboratory is the chemistry of masked o-benzoquinones (MOBs) and their cycloaddition-derived bicyclic frameworks. By combining photochemical rearrangements, cycloadditions, oxidative transformations, and catalytic bond-forming reactions, we aim to establish general principles for controlled skeletal reorganization and reactivity modulation. Our work integrates mechanistic insight with synthetic design, enabling the discovery of new reactions and efficient routes to structurally complex molecules relevant to organic synthesis, natural product chemistry, and functional molecule development.