About Me

Dr Tao (Kevin) Huang received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications) from The University of New South Wales. He received a master's degree in Sensor System Signal Processing from The University of Adelaide, and he received a 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 at The University of New South Wales. Dr Huang was an Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow supported by the Australia Government Department of Education. He was a visiting researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a research associate at the University of New South Wales, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the James Cook University. Before academia, Dr Huang held various positions in the industry such as senior software engineer, senior data scientist, project team lead and technical authority.  Currently, he is the program coordinator for the Master of Engineering (Professional) for the Internet of Things and Data Engineering and the IEEE Cairns Student Branch Councillor for 2021. Dr Huang is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Communication Society and a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Recent News

• 16 March 2021 - Our collaborated work "Energy-Aware Coded Caching Strategy Design with Resource Optimization for Satellite-UAV-Vehicle Integrated Networks" is accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Early access at Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3065664
• 13 Nov. 2020 - Great news! CRC Longevity has been shortlisted for Stage 2 of CRC Round 22 funding.
• 30 Oct. 2020 - Our work on Smart Catchments "Innovation through collaboration: Improving Urban Water Management for a Reef Council" is now published in Water e-Journal Vol 5 No 3 2020. Also available online here and PDF version here.
• 30 Oct. 2020 - Our recent work submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Impact Factor: 17.861) is now under revision.
• 19 Oct. 2020 - Dr Huang received a Certificate of Appreciation for participation in the Workplace Learning Program 2020 from the St Andrew's Catholic College, Redlynch Valley.
• 6 Oct. 2020 - Dr Huang has been elected to the IEEE Senior Member grade for his significant contributions to the profession.
• 19 Aug. 2020 - Our collaborated work “Smart Catchment” with the Cairns Regional Council has now published in the Digital Stormwater E-Magazine. You can review the complete article by following this link. 
• 18 Aug. 2020 - Our new building on Cairns Campus, the JCU Ideas Lab is now ready!
• 20 June 2020 - Our recent collaboration with the Centre for IoT and Telecommunications, University of Sydney,  on "Deep Learning-based Techniques for Grant-Free Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for B5G-IoT", presented at the AusCTW 2020. 
• 10 June 2020 -  In the modern world, we have several key challenges, and longevity is one of them. Dr Huang is a member of the  CRC Longevity research team. 
• 8 June 2020 - Check out the latest video we made for Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef for the Reef RADicals competition at reefradicals.org. Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef and James Cook University have joined forces to find our next generation of passionate and inspiring Reef RADicals. 
• 4 June 2020 - Dr Huang together with Dr Holdsworth received the very first and competitive JCU's Sandpit to Seed (S2S) funding support to further develop an innovative commercialisation opportunity.
• 17 March 2020 - Dr Huang's Webcast: Automating STIV measurements, presented at NZ Hydrological Society Technical Workshop. The outcome is the first IoT solution/prototype that developed for near-real-time automated discharge measurement.

Project 

Smart Catchments: Saltwater Creek (2018~2019)

• Project objectives: This project delivers water quality data in real-time, and in-turn informs 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.
• Project web: Project Link  
• Project award media release: Queensland Water Awards - Winner of the Program Innovation Award 
• Project Info on Australian Government Web.

Future Students

I am looking for potential research candidates with

• good mathematical background,
• demonstrated critical thinking ability and problem-solving skills, and
• high self-motivation.

If you have all the pre-requisites mentioned above and also interested in working with me, then there are two phases of your application. If you not sure how to contact a potential supervisor, this link may help you.

Phase 1

In this phase, please send me the following documents:

• detailed CV
• your academic transcripts
• list of publications (if any)
• research proposal (if any)

I will evaluate your documents and give you feedback. If I agree to be your supervisor, then we can move to phase 2.

Phase 2

Please refer to the Graduate Research School website for more information about How to Apply and information about Scholarships. Note that JCU Scholarships for Higher Degree by Research Candidates are awarded annually on a competitive basis to the top-ranking applicants. Usually, the deadline for the application with a scholarship is the end of September.

Note that Domestic Applicants means Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents, and New Zealand Citizens. International Applicants are all other applicants. For international applicants, please refer to the English language requirement and prepare the required documents.

If you are a student from China, you may consider applying the China Scholarship Council (CSC) funding to support your PhD study or visiting study.

Useful Links

• Australian Postgraduate Research Intern (APR.Intern)
• A 20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research
• Book: Foundations of Data Science
• Book and Slides: Deep Learning (An MIT Press Book)
• A Useful Deep Learning Resource Site
• Funding opportunities
• Getting to know the basic math symbols
• Why publishing is important for an academic career

Teaching

• CC3910: Digital Communication Technologies (Level 3; CNS)
• CC5501: Privacy and Security in IoT (Level 5; CNS)
• CC5901: Low-Power and Wide-Area loT Communications Network (Level 5; CNS)
• EE2300: Electronics 1 (Level 2; CNS)
• EE3700: Communications Systems Principles (Level 3; CNS)
• EG5311: Research Project 1 (Level 5; CNS & TSV)

Interests

Professional

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Research

• Internet of Things
• Wireless Communications
• Machine-Learning
• Big Data Analytics
• IoT Privacy and Security
• Edge/Cloud Computing
• Image Processing
• Coding and Information Theory

Experience

• 2020 to present - Lecturer, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2018 to 2019 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2016 to 2018 - Senior Data Scientist, A Trading Company (Sydney)
• 2014 to 2015 - Research Associate, University of New South Wales (Sydney)
• 2014 - Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
• 2013 to 2014 - Research Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
• 2007 to 2009 - Senior Engineer/Team Lead/Technical Authority, A Satellite Communication Company (Adelaide)
• 2003 to 2005 - Research/Software Engineer, Telecommunication Industry (Chengdu)

Research Disciplines

• Communications engineering (4006)

Awards

• 2010 to 2014 - Australian Postgraduate Award (University of New South Wales)
• 2010 to 2014 - Engineering Research Award (University of New South Wales)
• 2011 - Postgraduate Research Student Support Conference Travel Grant (University of New South Wales)
• 2011 - Best Academic Paper Award, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. (University of New South Wales)
• 2007 - Golden Key International Honour Society Membership (The University of Adelaide)
• 2003 - Excellent Graduate Award (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
• 2002 - Runner-up in the 2nd University Mathematical Modelling Contest (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
• 2002 - Single Subject Prize Award (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

Fellowships

• 2014 - Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Huang T, Yuan X, Yuan J and Xiang W (2020) Optimization of data exchange in 5G vehicle-to-infrastructure edge networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69 (9), pp. 9376-9389, DOI:10.1109/TVT.2020.2971080.
• Powell L, Lim H, Brown I, Huang T, Munksgaard N, Randall M, Holdsworth J and Cook H (2020) Innovation through collaboration: improving urban water management for a reef council. Water e-journal, 5 (3).
• Shi S, Li Y, Gu S, Huang T and Gu X (2020) Time allocation optimization and trajectory design in UAV-assisted energy and spectrum harvesting network. IEEE Access, 8, pp. 160537-160548, DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3021672.
• 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, DOI:10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2910517.
• 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, DOI:10.1016/j.future.2018.10.047.

Conference Papers

• Abbas R, Shirvanimoghaddam M, Huang T, Li Y and Vucetic B (2019) Performance analysis of short analog fountain codes. Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Globecom Workshops. 9-13 December 2019, Waikoloa, HI, USA

Other research outputs

• Zhang Z, Liu G, Qui M, Xiang W and Huang T (2020) Cloud Computing, Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications: 9th EAI international conference, Cloudcomp 2019, and 4th EAI international conference, SmartGIFT 2019, Beijing, China, December 4-5, 2019, and December 21-22, 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 322. Springer, Cham, Switzerland

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