Ya-Lin Huang
黃雅琳

Ph.D. Student
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

huangyl at gatech dot edu

Professional Experience

Research Assistant to Professor Richard Fujimoto, August 2007 -- present

We are developing a new simulation paradigm, which embeds online simulations into sensor networks that cover and monitor the systems of interest. Traditionally online simulation of an operational system is performed in a centralized manner; data from the sensors are streamed to a central location where the simulation is performed. Our proposed methodology, on the contrary, embeds the simulation computation into a network of sensors. Each sensor autonomously performs an online simulation of some portion of the physical system. An ad hoc distributed simulation adds communication and synchronization services among the simulators to model the entire region covered by the sensor network. This methodology potentially provides several benefits, including quick response, reduced data transmission bandwidth, failure resistance, and scalability.

This work involves both system design/construction and statistical data analysis. The simulation program is implemented in C/C++ under Linux. The High Level Architecture (HLA) is adopted. The communication and synchronization among the distributed processes are built upon the Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI). For data analysis, we consider standard input/output analysis techniques from the literatures as well as the state-of-the-art advanced stochastic process approximation methodologies.

Publications:

Y.-L. Huang, W. Suh, C. Alexopoulos, R. Fujimoto, and M. Hunter, "Statistical Issues in Ad Hoc Distributed Simulations," in Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference, IEEE Computer Society, December 2011. (Invited Paper)

Y.-L. Huang, C. Alexopoulos, R. Fujimoto, and M. Hunter, "On the Accuracy of Ad Hoc Distributed Simulations for Open Queueing Networks," in Proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), IEEE Computer Society, June 2011.

Y.-L. Huang, C. Alexopoulos, M. Hunter, and R. Fujimoto, "Ad Hoc Distributed Simulation Methodology for Open Queueing Networks," Simulation, in press.

Y.-L. Huang, C. Alexopoulos, M. Hunter, and R. Fujimoto, "Ad Hoc Distributed Simulation of Queueing Networks," in Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 57--64, May 2010. (Best Paper Award)

M. Hunter, J. Sirichoke, R. Fujimoto, Y.-L. Huang, "Embedded Ad Hoc Distributed Simulation for Transportation System Monitoring and Control," in Proceedings of INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop, June 2009.

Teaching Assistant to Professor Edmond Chow and Professor Richard Fujimoto, August 2011 -- December 2011

Graduate/undergraduate Level Course: Computational Problem Solving for Scientists and Engineers

This course aims at bridging non-CS majored students into computational science and engineering fields by preparing students with core knowledge in computer science and programming skills

Besides the basic workload such as assignment grading and TA office hours, I am involved in (1) assignment desing and (2) a subsitute lecture on Heap data structure.

Teaching Assistant to Professor Richard Fujimoto, January 2010 -- May 2010

Graduate/undergraduate Level Course: Modeling and Simulation: Fundamentals & Implementation

Besides the basic workload such as assignment/exam grading, I was involved greatly in the course: (1) designed an assignment, (2) gave a lecture on C programming and how-to on the RTI library used in the assignment, and (3) participated in guiding the course projects from proposal, check-point to final presentation/report.

Research Assistant to Professor Yi-Bing Lin, September 2003 -- July 2007

I was under the National Information and Communications Initiative Committee (NICI) IPv6 R&D division projects, studying Internet telephony protocols (e.g., IPv6, VoIP, SIP/RTP) and constructing the SIP-based Internet telephony system.

Publications:

W.-E. Chen, Y.-L. Huang, and Y.-B. Lin, "An Effective IPv4–IPv6 Translation Mechanism for SIP Applications in Next Generation Networks," International Journal of Communication Systems, vol. 23(8), pp. 919--928, August 2010.

W.-E. Chen, Y.-L. Huang, and H.-C. Chao, "NAT Traversing Solutions for SIP Applications," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2008, pp. 1--9, January 2008.

Y.-L. Huang, W.-E. Chen, Q. Wu, Y.-B. Lin, "SIP Traversal over NAT Mechanisms on NTP VoIP Platform," in Proceedings of the Taiwan Academic Network Conference, pp. 1076--1081, October 2004.

Y.-L. Huang and W.-E. Chen, "NAT Traversing Mechanisms for SIP-based VoIP Phone (III) - UPnP and Session Controller," RUN!PC Magazine, December 2004.

Y.-L. Huang and W.-E. Chen, "NAT Traversing Mechanisms for SIP-based VoIP Phone (I) - VPN and Static Assignment," RUN!PC Magazine, October 2004.

Y.-L. Huang and W.-E. Chen, "SIP-based VoIP Phone - Windows Messenger," RUN!PC Magazine, May 2004.

Teaching Assistant to Professor Yi-Bing Lin, February 2006 -- June 2006

Graduate Level Course: Personal Communication Services

This course was lectured in English (in Taiwan); TAs were required to do the grading and general guidance in English.

Assistant in Computer Center, National Chiao Tung University, May 2003 -- June 2005

I maintained the campus network traffic monitoring system, which was built using Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) under FreeBSD.

Certification on NOKIA SIP-based Mobile Application Development, August 2006

NOKIA Developer Training Course Completion Certificate -- SIP-based Mobile Application Development

This is a 60-hour training course followed by a final project. We (Yi-Huan Chan, Yueh-Hsin Sung, Hsiao-Han Wang, and I) developed from scratch a multi-player dicing game (called DiceBox) on Symbian S60 platform. Our product won the 1st place at the final project contest (awarded NTD 30,000), completing against 30 trainees.

Honors and Awards

Memberships

Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of Republic of China, Honorary Member, June 2005

Top 1% graduates annually selected national-wide

International Olympiad in Informatics, National Team Member, July 2001 in Finland

Four high school students annually selected national-wide, representing Chinese Taipei

Scholarships

Taiwan Ministry of Education Scholarship for Foreign Study, August 2007 -- July 2008

Top 10 EECS students annually selected national-wide
USD 25,000 support annually

Scholarship of College of Computer Science, NCTU, September 2005 -- June 2007

Top 3% graduate students
Tuition waiver and monthly stipend

President's Awards in NCTU CSIE, 7 times, September 2001 -- January 2005

Top 5% students

NCTU Freshman Golden Scholarship, September 2001 -- June 2005

Tuition waiver and monthly stipend

Programming Contest Awards (selected)

1st place, 2005 National Mobile Game Creativity Contest, May 2005

Team name: Kanmounsisi (感冒用斯斯)
Team members: Tun-Hao Yu (leader), Lin-Shung Huang, Ya-Lin Huang, Chu-Hsuan Kuang, Steve Lee, Hui-Chen Lin, Jui-Nan Lin, I-hsuan Lu, Hsia-Kuo Wang, and Bing-Jhen Wu
Topic: Aquamate -- a fish's story
Director: Professor Yu-Chee Tseng (曾煜棋教授)

In charge of the program design and implementation on pocket PC using C# with Jui-Nan Lin

4th Place, 4th NTU-NCTU Friendship Programming Contest, October 2004

1st Place, 2004 National Communication Engineering Project Contest, May 2004

Topic: IPv6 Socket-layer Translator
Partner: Chia-Yung Su
Director: Dr. Whai-En Chen

Performed program testing and performance evaluation

4th Place, 2nd NTU-NCTU Friendship Programming Contest, October 2002

1st Place, 2002 NCTU Programming Contest, April 2002

Partner: Hsin-Yi Lee and Christina Lin

6th Place, 2001 ACM ICPC Asia Region Taipei Site, November 2001

Partner: Hsin-Yi Lee and Christina Lin

2nd Place, 2001 National Collegiate Programming Contest, October 2001

Partner: Min-Zheng Shieh and Hsin-Yi Lee

Education and Activities

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA