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Qin Huang

 

qhuang.smash@gmail.com

 

·         Welcome to the homepage of Qin Huang.

·         I was a PhD student of Professor Shu Lin, IEEE Life Fellow, former President of IEEE Information Theory Society.

  • Research interests:

Channel Coding:  LDPC Codes, Iterative Decoding, Soft-decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes

Applications of Channel Coding

Data Storage: Flash memories

Channel Detection

  • Honors

Block Grant Fellowship, UC Davis, Spring Quarter 2010

  • Academic activities

Reviewer of: IEEE Trans. on Inform. Theory, IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, IEEE Communications Letter, The Journal of Signal Processing Systems;

                    IEEE ISIT, IEEE Globecom., IEEE ICC, IEEE PIMRC,  IEEE ISCAS, IEEE AusCTW.

  • Work Experience

One of the first LDPC codes for NAND flash memories without error floor at BER 10-15,  Cadence,        2010

Powerful Nonbinary LDPC codes for HDD,                                                                        Link-A-Media, 2011

  • Hobbies

Badminton   ( 3rd, Men's Singles B, IM Badminton Open, UC Davis, 2009)

                    (2nd, Men's doubles B con., Xiyu Open, Fremont, 2010)

 

   Papers in Preparation (Please wait! Some exciting results are coming!)

  • Q. Huang, S. Lin, K. A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar, "Redundancy", IEEE Trans., in preparation.
  •  "BURST!", IEEE Trans., in preparation.

Selected Publications

  • Q. Huang, S. Lin and K. A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar, "Error-Correcting Codes for Flash Coding," accepted by IEEE Trans., I.T.
  • Q. Huang, S. Lin and K. Abdel-Ghaffar, “Cyclic and quasi-cyclic LDPC codes on row and column constrained parity-check matrices and their trapping sets,” accepted by IEEE Trans. I.T..
  • Q. Huang, S. Lin and K. Abdel-Ghaffar, "Trapping Sets of Structured LDPC Codes,'' IEEE ISIT, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2011.
  • Q. Huang, Q. Diao and S. Lin, "Circulant Decomposition: Cyclic, Quasi-Cyclic and LDPC Codes," IEEE ISITA, 2010.
  • Q. Huang, S. Lin and K. A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar, "Flash Coding Scheme Based on Error-Correcting Codes," IEEE Globecom, 2010.
  • Q. Huang, J. Kang, L. Zhang, S. Lin and K. A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar, "Two Reliability-Based Iterative Majority-Logic Decoding Algorithms for LDPC Codes," IEEE Trans. on Commun., Dec. 2009.
  • J. Kang, Q. Huang, S. Lin and K. A. Ghaffar, "An Iterative Decoding Algorithm with Backtracking to Lower the Error-Floors of LDPC Codes," accepted by IEEE Trans. on Commun.
  • J. Kang, Q. Huang, L. Zhang, B. Zhou and S. Lin, "Quasi-cyclic LDPC codes: an algebraic construction'', accepted by IEEE Trans. Commun.
  • L. Zhang, Q. Huang, S. Lin, K. A. Ghaffar and I. Blake, "Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes: An Algebraic Construction, Rank Analysis and Codes on Latin Squares," accepted by IEEE Trans. on Commun.
  • L. Zhang, Q. Huang and S. Lin, "Iterative Algorithms for Decoding a Class of Two-Step Majority-Logic Decodable Cyclic Codes," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Commun.
  • C. Y. Chen, Q. Huang, C. C. Chao, and S. Lin, "Two Low-Complexity Reliability-Based Message-Passing Algorithms for Decoding Non-Binary LDPC Codes," IEEE Trans. on Commun., accepted.
  • Q. Diao, Q. Huang, S. Lin and K. Abdel-Ghaffar, "A transform approach for computing the ranks of parity-check matrices of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes", IEEE ISIT, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2011.
  • X. Chen, Q. Huang, S. Lin and A. Venkatesh, "FPGA-Based Low-Complexity High-Throughput Tri-Mode Decoder for Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes," IEEE Allerton 2009, UIUC.
  • Q. Huang, J. Kang, L. Zhang, S. Lin and K. A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar, "An Efficient and Low-Complexity Iterative Reliability-Based Majority-Logic Decoding Algorithm for LDPC Codes," Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego,CA, 2009.
  • B. Zhou, L. Zhang, J. Kang, Q. Huang, S. Lin, and K. A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar, "Array dispersions of matrices and constructions of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes over non-binary fields," in Proc. IEEE ISIT, 2008.
  • B. Zhou, L. Zhang, J. Kang, Q. Huang, Y. Y. Tai, S. Lin and M. Xu, "Non-binary LDPC codes vs. Reed-Solomon codes," in Proc. ITA, 2008.
  • B. Zhou, J. Kang, Y. Y. Tai, Q. Huang, and S. Lin, "High Performance Nonbinary Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes on Euclidean Geometries",  in Proc.  IEEE, MILCOM 2007.
  • Q. Huang, J. Wu, C. Zhao, and X. You, "Waterfilling-Like Multiplicity Assignment Algorithm for Algebraic Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes," in Proc. IEEE ICC 2007.