Dr Tao Huang (Kevin) received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of New South Wales (Supervised by Professor Jinhong Yuan, IEEE Fellow). He received his master’s degree in Sensor System Signal Processing from The University of Adelaide (Advised by  Matthew Trinkle), and he received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics Information and Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Huang received the Australian Postgraduate Award and Engineering Research Award during his PhD program. He was an Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow supported by the Australia Government Department of Education in 2014. Dr. Huang was a visiting scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Huang worked in various positions in the industry.  He worked as a senior engineer, project team lead, and technical authority in the telecommunications industry. He also worked as a data scientist in the financial industry.

After Dr. Huang joined James Cook University, he worked closely with Professor Wei Xiang on several industrial IoT projects. For example, he worked on the smart catchment project with the Cairns Regional Council to develop an IoT solution, to monitor the quality of the water that flows into the Great Barrier Reef. He is currently working on a cloud IoT solution for a local business, to improve their competitive ability in the global market.

Dr. Huang's interests focus on the various aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology for real-world applications, such as privacy and security, cloud architecture and computing, machine-learning algorithms for big-data analytics, and low-power wide-area communications technologies.

Dr. Huang is a member of the Institute of Engineers Australia (IEA) and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Project 

Smart Catchments: Saltwater Creek

• Project objectives: This project delivers water quality data in real-time and in-turn inform better water management processes. 
• Funding: Australian Government’s Smart Cities and Suburbs Program.
• Project stakeholders: Cairns Regional Council, James Cook University, Itron, and WetTropics Healthy Waterways Partnership.
• The team in JCU:
• Professor Wei Xiang (Lead)
• Dr Tao Huang (Kevin) 
• Dr Han She Lim
• Dr Neils Crosley Munksgaard
• Dr Jason Holdsworth
• Project web: Project Link  
• Project award media release: Queensland Water Awards - Winner of the Program Innovation Award 
• Project Info on Australian Government Web.

 

Teaching

• CC3910: Digital Communication Technologies (Level 3; CNS)
• CC5901: Low-Power and Wide-Area loT Communications Network (Level 5; CNS)
• EE2300: Electronics 1 (Level 2; CNS)

Research Disciplines

• Communications Technologies (1005)
• Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing (0801)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Communication Networks and Services (8901)
• Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water (9611)
• Environmentally Sustainable Information and Communication Services (8998)

Fellowships

• 2014 - Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow

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Journal Articles

• Abbas R, Shirvanimoghaddam M, Huang T, Li Y and Vucetic B (2019) Novel design for short analog fountain codes. IEEE Communications Letters, 23 (8). pp. 1306-1309
• Xiang W, Huang T and Wan W (2019) Machine learning based optimization for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. Future Generation Computer Systems, 94. pp. 488-495

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