Ya-Lin Huang
黃雅琳

Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

HuangYL at gatech dot edu

Here is my Resume.
My expected graduation date is May 2013.

Professional Experience

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

The continuous growth of computing power in small devices has motivated the development of novel approaches to solving real-world problems efficiently and effectively. Real-world problems are often so complex that solving them analytically may be difficult, if not prohibited. One alternative method to solving such problems is to use online simulation. However, inadequate use of this type of simulation may lead to issues concerning responsiveness (e.g., because of communication delays), scalability, and failure resistance. To tackle these issues, we propose a new paradigm referred to as "ad hoc distributed simulation," which is based on embedding online simulations into a sensor network and adding communication and synchronization among simulators.

This work involves both system design/construction and statistical data analysis. The simulation is implemented in C/C++ under Linux. The High Level Architecture (HLA) is adopted. The communication and synchronization among the distributed simulators are built upon the Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI). For data analysis, we practice 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, C. Alexopoulos, M. Hunter, and R. Fujimoto, "Ad Hoc Distributed Simulation Methodology for Open Queueing Networks," Simulation, vol. 88(7), pp. 784--800, July 2012.

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 (WSC), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 612--624, 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, pp. 163--168, June 2011.

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, pp. 13--17, 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 basic workload such as assignment grading and TA office hours, I was involved in (1) assignment desing and (2) a 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 basic workload such as assignment/exam grading and TA office hours, I was involved greatly in the course: (1) designed an assignment, (2) gave a lecture on C programming and a tutorial on the RTI library used in the assignment, and (3) provided assistances to students on 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 a 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.

This series of the three articles introduce the SIP-based VoIP application and elaborate on well-known NAT traversing mechanisms. Since this magazine is primarily for readers seeking practical solutions, these articles deliver details with step-by-step instructions and discuss complex theories in examples and analogies.
*RUN!PC is one of the most popular computer magazines published in Taiwan, providing IT solutions for both business and home environments.

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 grade and hold office hours 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, national-wide

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

Four (4) high school students, national-wide, representing Chinese Taipei

Scholarships

Taiwan Ministry of Education Scholarship for Foreign Study, August 2007 -- July 2009

Ten (10) EECS students, national-wide
USD 25,000 per year

Graduate Student Scholarship in NCTU CS, 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)

2nd Place, GA Tech Hackathon: Sponsored by eBay, February 2013

Team name: CowBay
Team members: Chien-An Cho, Ya-Lin Huang, Tsung-Yu Lee
Topic: A customized product recommendation system by cross-referencing user profiles from eBay and Facebook

In charge of the back-end functional support using Python and MongoDB

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