Name: HUANG Qin
 School: School of Electronic and Information Engineering
 E-Mail: qhuang.smash@gmail.com

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 (More than 100 in total).

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

Journal Papers
Q. Huang, L. Tang and Z. Wang,A Low-Complexity Encoding of Quasi-Cyclic Codes Based on Galois Fourier Transformation,submitted to IEEE Trans. Communications.
Q. Huang, K. Liu and Z. Wang, Analysis of low-density arrays of circulant matrices and QC-LDPC codes with performance improving redundant rows,  submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.
Q. Huang, M. Zhang and Z. Wang, A concatenation reliability scheme of LDPC codes and compressed sensing for flash memories,  EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2012:208.
Q. Huang, S. Lin and K. A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar, "Error-Correcting Codes for Flash Coding," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 6097 - 6108, Sept. 2011.[cited by 10].
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., [cited by 16].
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, [cited by 26].
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, [cited by 6].
J. Kang, Q. Huang, L. Zhang, B. Zhou and S. Lin, "Quasi-cyclic LDPC codes: an algebraic construction'', accepted by IEEE Trans. Commun, [cited by 33].
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, [cited by 25].
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, [cited by 14].

Conference Papers
Q. Huang, K. Liu and Z. Wang, Low-density arrays of circulant matrices: rank and row-redundancy, and QC-LDPC codes,IEEE ISIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2012.
Q. Huang, S. Lin and K. Abdel-Ghaffar, "Trapping Sets of Structured LDPC Codes," IEEE ISIT, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2011, [cited by 1].
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, [cited by 3].
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, [cited by 4].
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, [cited by 12].
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, [cited by 14].
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, [cited by 9].
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.