Hua Chen Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 　 Office: A.V.W. 2250 Email: huachen@nospam.umd.edu - Please remove "nospam." from email address Phone: 301-405-6594

I'm a PhD student in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland College Park. My advisor is Prof. John Baras.

My research interests include wireless and mobile ad hoc networks, networked control, distributed networks and information theory.

Education

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland College Park, 08/2007 - Present. PhD student, advisor: Prof. John Baras.

• Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 09/2004 - 07/2007. M.S., advisor: Prof. Zhigang Cao. Thesis: Code Construction Algorithms of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes at Finite Block Lengths.

• Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, 09/2000 - 07/2004. B.S.

Experience

• Research Assistant, Institute for Systems Research and Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 08/2009 - Present.

• Teaching Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 08/2007 - 05/2009.

• Visiting Student, Augusta Technology, Beijing, China, 03/2007 - 07/2007.

• Intern, Media Communication Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, 07/2006 - 11/2006.

• Research Assistant, State Key Lab on Microwave & Digital Communications, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 09/2005 - 07/2007.

• Research Assistant, Institute of Information Processing, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 03/2004 - 07/2004.

Publications

1. Yusuo Hu, Hua Chen, Jian-Guang Lou and Jiang Li, "Distributed Density Estimation Using Non-parametric Statistics", IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Toronto, Canada, Jun. 2007.

2. Hua Chen and Zhigang Cao, "A Measure of the Girth Histogram for Improved Girth-Conditioning Construction of LDPC Codes", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 340-342, Apr. 2007.

3. Hua Chen and Zhigang Cao, "A Modified PEG Algorithm for Construction of LDPC Codes with Strictly Concentrated Check-Node Degree Distributions", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Hong Kong, China, Mar. 2007.

4. Hua Chen and Zhigang Cao, "An Improved PEG Construction of Irregular LDPC Codes by Conditioning Low-Degree Nodes", IEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Multimedia Networks (ICWMMN), Hangzhou, China, Nov. 2006.

Activities

• Paper Reviewer, IEEE Communications Letters

• Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland College Park

  • ENEE307 - Electrical Circuits Design Laboratory, Fall 2007

  • ENEE324 - Engineering Probability, Spring 2008

  • ENEE620 - Random Processes in Communication & Control, Fall 2008

  • ENEE417 - Microelectronics Design Lab, Spring 2009

  • ENEE425 - Digital Signal Processing, Spring 2009