About Me

Dr. Huang holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is an accredited Ph.D. advisor and an expert in deep learning and wireless communications. He is the principal researcher of the Intelligent Computing and Communications (ICC) Lab. We are looking for self-motivated Ph.D./MPhil candidates to join the lab (see below). 

Before academia, Dr. Huang worked in the industry and held positions such as senior software engineer, senior data scientist, project team lead, and technical lead. Star projects include Inmarsat IsatPhone Pro development, Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System development, and Global Broadband Area Network Modem development.

Dr. Huang is an Associate Editor of the IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY, IEEE ACCESS, IET COMMUNICATIONS, SINERGI JOURNAL, and a Topical Advisory Panel Member of MDPI ELECTRONICS.

Research collaboration and Industry collaboration are welcome!

Dr. Huang is currently active in the below research areas.

Smart Sensing 

Dr. Huang developed a prototype of a computer vision-based discharge sensing system in the Smart Catchment Project in collaboration with Cairns Regional Council. The prototype is installed at Saltwater Creek at Cairns.

• Lynne Powel, HanShe Lim, Iain Brown, Tao Huang, Neils Munksgaard, Mark Randall, Jason Holdsworth, and Helen Cook, "Innovation through collaboration: improving urban water management for a reef council," in Water E-Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, Oct. 2020
• A report in Magazine: Nicole Nally, "Caring for coral," in StormWater, pp. 26-27 Aug. 2020.

Current Australian Research Council Discovery Project 

• Project title: Low-cost Sensing Methods and Hybrid Learning Models
• Funding amount: $450,000 for 3 years (2022, 2023, 2024).
• Project Team: Professor Wei Xiang; Professor Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen; Dr. Tao Huang; Dr. Peng Cheng; Dr. Tran Khoa Phan; Professor Lajos Hanzo.
• Summary: This project aims to revolutionize the theory and practice of sensing and monitoring by developing novel Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things technologies. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of Artificial Intelligence of Things by combining sensing, machine learning, and big data analytics. Expected outcomes of this project include novel low-cost sensing methods and new hybrid machine-learning models for predictive sensory data analytics. This should provide significant benefits, such as substantially reduced operating and service costs and improved accuracy for real-time monitoring in the fields where cheap-to-implement and easy-to-service monitoring systems over large geographical areas are imperative.

Image processing

• Kang Han, Wei Xiang, Eric Wang and Tao Huang, "A Novel Occlusion-aware Vote Cost for Light Field Depth Estimation," in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), August 2021. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3105523, Early Access.
• Jianan Liu, Hao Li, Tao Huang, Euijoon Ahn, Adeel Razi, and Wei Xiang, "Unsupervised Representation Learning for 3D MRI Super Resolution with Degradation Adaptation," 2022, arXiv:2205.06891v1, version 1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.06891, [PREPRINT].

Object detection and tracking:

• Jianan Liu, Liping Bai, Yuxuan Xia, Tao Huang, Bing Zhu, and Qing-long Han, "GNN-PMB: A Simple but Effective Online 3D Multi-Object Tracker without Bells and Whistles," 2022, accepted in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, arXiv:2206.10255v4, version 4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.10255, [PREPRINT].
• Weiyi Xiong, Jianan Liu, Yuxuan Xia, Tao Huang, Bing Zhu, and Wei Xiang, "Contrastive Learning for Automotive mmWave Radar Detection Points Based Instance Segmentation," 2022, arXiv:2203.06553v2, version 2, DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.06553, accepted by the 2022 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Conference, [PREPRINT].
• Jianan Liu, Weiyi Xiong, Liping Bai, Yuxuan Xia, Tao Huang, Wanli Ouyang, and Bing Zhu, "Deep Instance Segmentation with Automotive Radar Detection Points," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 22 April 2022, doi: 10.1109/TIV.2022.3168899, Early access.

Wireless Communications 

• Project: Dr. Jusak Jusak (JCUS), Dr. Tao Huang (JCUA), and Dr. Steven Kerrison(JCUS), Project: Lightweight Blockchain Development for Healthcare IoT, successfully funded ($4911.12) under the JCUS-JCUA Cross-Campus Collaboration Grant Scheme, 2022.

• Umer Zia, Wei Xiang, Tao Huang, and I.H Naqvi, “Deep Learning-aided TR-UWB MIMO System,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications,  vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 6579-6588, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2022.3199489. (link)

• Ruide Li, Jinglu Cui, Tao Huang, Lei Yang, and Shihao Yan, "Optimal Pulse-Position Modulation Order and Transmit Power in Covert Communications," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 5570-5575, May 2022, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3151197.
• Shushi Gu, Xinyi Sun, Zhihua Yang, Tao Huang, Wei Xiang and Keping Yu, "Energy-Aware Coded Caching Strategy Design with Resource Optimization for Satellite-UAV-Vehicle Integrated Networks," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal,  vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 5799-5811, Apr. 2022. doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3065664. 
• Tao Huang, Xiaojun Yuan, Jinhong Yuan, and Wei Xiang, "Optimisation of Data Exchange in 5G vehicle infrastructure edge networks," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 9376-9389, Sept. 2020.

My Bio

Dr. Huang is a Senior Member of IEEE and holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He also holds an M.Eng. in Sensor System Signal Processing from The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, and a B.Eng. in Electronics and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

Currently, Dr. Huang is an Electronic Systems and IoT Engineering lecturer at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, and serves as the program coordinator for the Master of Engineering (Professional) (Internet of Things and Data Engineering). In addition, he has held various academic positions such as Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow, visiting scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, research associate at the University of New South Wales, and postdoctoral research fellow at James Cook University. Before academia, Dr. Huang worked in the industry and held positions such as senior software engineer, senior data scientist, project team lead, and technical lead.

Dr. Huang has received several awards and honors, such as the Australian Postgraduate Award, the Engineering Research Award at The University of New South Wales, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award, and the Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning at James Cook University. He is a co-inventor of an international patent on MIMO systems.

Dr. Huang is a member of various professional societies, such as the IEEE Communication Society, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He serves as the MTT-S/COM Chapter Chair and Young Professionals Affinity Group Chair for the IEEE Northern Australia Section. He also serves in various capacities at international conferences as TPC chair, program vice chair, local chair, and TPC member. Dr. Huang is an Associate Editor of the IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY, IEEE ACCESS, IET COMMUNICATIONS, SINERGI JOURNAL, and a Topical Advisory Panel Member of MDPI ELECTRONICS. His research interests include deep learning, intelligent sensing, computer vision, pattern recognition, wireless communications, and IoT security.

 

Call for Submission

Security and privacy are always critical issues in wireless communication systems. To tackle these issues, novel cryptography designs, physical layer transmission strategies, network protocols, and related regulations are in high demand. This Special Issue, "Security and Privacy for Modern Wireless Communication System," in Electronics MDPI, focuses on addressing the emerging security and privacy issues for modern wireless communication networks.

Guest editors Dr Shihao Yan (ECU), Prof. Guanglin Zhang (DHU), Prof. Li Sun (XJTU), Prof. Tsz Hon Yuen (HKU), Dr YoHan Park (KMU), Prof. Changhoon Lee (SeoulTech), and myself (JCU). 

Welcome to contribute! Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2023.

Recent News

• 10 January 2023 – Dr Huang is invited to join the Technical Committee of the 2023 International Symposium on Automation, Mechanical and Design Engineering (SAMD), which will be held on 8-10 December 2023 in Macau, China.

• 10 January 2023 – Dr Huang is invited to join the IEEE R10 Newsletter sub-Committee as an Editor.

• 7 January 2023 – Dr Huang is invited to join IEEE Access as an associate editor.

• 7 January 2023 – Dr Huang is invited to be the TPC member of 2023 IEEE INFOCOM AidTSP: International Workshop on AI-driven Trustworthy, Secure, and Privacy-Preserving Computing.

• 24 December 2022 -  Dr Huang received the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award!

• 8 December 2022 – Dr Huang is now an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

• 27 November 2022 – Our work: Zhengmin Kong, Hui Ouyang, Yiyuan Cao, Tao Huang, Euijoon Ahn, Maoqi Zhang and Huan Liu, “Automated Periodontitis Bone Loss Diagnosis in Panoramic Radiographs Using a Bespoke Two-Stage Detector,” is now accepted by the Computers in Biology and Medicine (IF 6.698).

• 18 November 2022 – Dr Huang is now an Associate Editor of the IET Communications Journal.

• More news can be found at the Intelligent Computing and Communications Lab.

Future Students

Since you are now reading this section, you must be interested in the field of Intelligent Computing or Wireless Communications. This is great! Now you need to see whether you have the following pre-requisites:

• Good mathematical background,

• Demonstrated critical thinking ability,

• Demonstrated problem-solving skills, and

• Strong self-motivation.

If you have all the pre-requisites, then there are two phases of your application. If you are not sure how to contact a potential supervisor, this link may help you.

Phase 1 - Establish Contact 

In this phase, please send Dr. Huang the following documents:

• Current curriculum vitae (CV)

• Transcripts and testamurs for all qualifications completed or currently underway

• Self-evaluation against this scholarship scoring procedure (please justify your score)

• Proof of English language proficiency (for international applicants only, if you have one)

• A piece of your most recent writing (if any)

• List of publications (if any)

• Research proposal (if any)

Your submitted files and email will be evaluated carefully. Selected applicants will be organized with a presentation, then following a short interview. Successful candidates will move to the next phase.

Phase 2 - Submit Application

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.

Students from India

Please send me your GATE score if you have one. The ranking of the universities in India can be found here.

Students from China

You may consider applying for the China Scholarship Council (CSC) funding to support your Ph.D. study or visiting study. Please contact Dr. Huang if you intend to apply for the CSC scholarship.

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

• CC5501: Privacy and Security in IoT (Level 5; CNS)
• CC5901: Low-Power and Wide-Area loT Communications Network (Level 5; CNS)
• EE3700: Communications Systems Principles (Level 3; CNS)

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
• Deep Learning

Experience

• 2023 to present - Communication Society Chapter Chair, IEEE Northern Australia Section (Cairns)
• 2022 to present - Young Professionals Affinity Group Chair, IEEE Northern Australia Section (Cairns)
• 2022 to present - Robotics Competition Committee Member, IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific) (Cairns)
• 2020 to present - Lecturer, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2022 - Communication Society Chapter Vice Chair, IEEE Northern Australia Section (Cairns)
• 2021 - Student Branch Councillor Cairns, IEEE Northern Australia Section (Cairns)
• 2018 to 2019 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2016 to 2018 - Senior Data Scientist, Compass Global Markets (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)
• 2010 to 2014 - PhD Candidate (Electrical Engineering), The University of New South Wales (Sydney)
• 2007 to 2009 - Senior Engineer/Team Lead/Technical Authority, DSpace / EMS SATCOM (Adelaide)
• 2005 to 2007 - Postgraduate Student (Master of Engineering, Sensor System Signal Processing), The University of Adelaide (Adelaide)
• 2003 to 2005 - Research and Software Engineer, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (Chengdu)
• 1999 to 2003 - Undergraduate Student (Electronics Information and Engineering), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan)

Research Disciplines

• Communications engineering (4006)
• Machine learning (4611)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Communication technologies, systems and services (2201)
• Information systems, technologies and services (2204)

Awards

• 2022 - Supervise the ICC Lab member Umer Zia’s project “IoT-Enabled Smart Farming in Queensland” received an Honorary Mention in the 2022 ComSoc Student Competition "Communications Technology Changing the World."
• 2022 - First place winner for the APAC region in the IEEE ComSoc Internet for All competition
• 2022 - IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award
• 2022 - JCU Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for creating an innovative and student-focused curriculum and culture of learning that provides engineering students with job-ready skills in electronics and the Internet of Things
• 2020 - Certificate of Appreciation for participation in the Workplace Learning Program from St Andrew's Catholic College, Redlynch Valley.
• 2010 to 2014 - Engineering Research Award (University of New South Wales)
• 2010 to 2014 - Australian Postgraduate 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 - Single Subject Prize Award (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
• 2002 - Runner-up in the 2nd University Mathematical Modelling Contest (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

• Kong Z, Ouyang H, Cao Y, Huang T, Ahn E, Zhang M and Liu H (2023) Automated periodontitis bone loss diagnosis in panoramic radiographs using a bespoke two-stage detector. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 152.
• Gu S, Yu Z, Zhang Q and Huang T (in press) Energy-Aware Coded Transmission Strategy for Hierarchical Cooperative Caching Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters,
• Gu S, Sun X, Yang Z, Huang T, Xiang W and Yu K (2022) Energy-aware coded caching strategy design with resource optimization for satellite-UAV-vehicle integrated networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9 (8). pp. 5799-5811
• Han K, Xiang W, Wang E and Huang T (in press) A novel occlusion-aware vote cost for light field depth estimation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
• Li R, Cui J, Huang T, Yang L and Shihao Y (in press) Optimal pulse-position modulation order and transmit power in covert communications. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
• Liu J, Bai L, Xia Y, Huang T, Zhu B and Han Q (in press) GNN-PMB: A Simple but Effective Online 3D Multi-Object Tracker without Bells and Whistles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles,
• Liu J, Xiong W, Bai L, Xia Y, Huang T, Ouyang W and Zhu B (in press) Deep instance segmentation with automotive radar detection points. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles,
• Zhang M, Huang T, Guo Z and He Z (in press) Complex-network-based traffic network analysis and dynamics: A comprehensive review. Physica A: statistical mechanics and its applications,
• Zia M, Xiang W, Vitetta G and Huang T (in press) Deep Learning for Parametric Channel Estimation in Massive MIMO Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
• Zia M, Xiang W, Huang T and Ijaz Haider N (2022) Deep Learning-aided TR-UWB MIMO System. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 70 (10). pp. 6579-6588

Conference Papers

• Liu K, Huang T and Guo Z (2022) Classification of Pathological Images of Skin Diseases Based on Deep Learning. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems. In: DOCS 2022: 4th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems, 28-30 October 2022, Chengdu, China
• Xiong W, Liu J, Xia Y, Huang T, Zhu B and Xiang W (2022) Contrastive Learning for Automotive mmWave Radar Detection Points Based Instance Segmentation. Proceedings of the IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. In: ITSC 2022: IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Macau, China, 8-12 October 2022

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 23+ research outputs authored by Dr Tao Huang from 2012 onwards.

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Current

• Deep Learning for Improved Construction Waste Management (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Explainable AI for Medical Applications (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Massive Multiple-input and Multiple-output (MIMO) Technique for Visible Light Communications (VLC) Systems (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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