Nan HUA

Ph.D. Candidate

Advisor: Jun (Jim) Xu
Networking and Telecommunication Group (NTG)
College of Computing (CoC)
Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech)

Office Address: KACB-3337
266 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332
Email: nanhua AT cc.gatech.edu

[Education&Working] [Research Interests] [Publications] [Teaching] [Professional Services] [Miscellaneous]

Working Experience

Jun 2010 -Nov 2010 Internship in Huawei US R&D Center, Santa Clara, CA, USA

May 2009 -Aug 2009 Internship in Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

May 2008 -Aug 2008 Internship in Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA

Education

Aug 2007 -Present Pursuing PhD in College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Jun (Jim) Xu

Aug 2005 -Jul 2007 Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing , P. R. China
M.S., Communication and Information Engineering.
in Networking ASICs Group, under the supervision of Prof. Lieguang Zeng and Prof. Depeng Jin
Aug 2001 -Jul 2005 Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing , P. R. China
B.E, Information Electronics and Engineering
Aug 1998- Jul 2001 National Science Experimental Class, Tsinghua High School, Beijing, P. R. China

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Research Interests

Ongoing Research Projects/Efforts:

Network Algorithmics

Network Measurement and Network Data Streaming
Fast and Efficient Text-Pattern Matching and Deep Packet Inspection
Fast Algorithms and Data Structures for Networking Applications

Power saving for electrocardiography signals

Previous Research Efforts:

Architecture and Scheduling Algorithms of High-speed Switching and Routing

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Publications

Nan Hua, Ashwin Lall, Baochun Li and Jun (Jim) Xu."Towards Optimal Error-Estimating Codes through the Lens of Fisher Information Analysis". to Appear in ACM SIGMETRICS 2012, Jun 11-15, London, UK. (Acceptance ratio: 31/203=15.3%)
Nan Hua, Ashwin Lall, Baochun Li and Jun (Jim) Xu."A Simpler and Better Design of Error Estimating Coding" [slides]. Published in IEEE INFOCOM 2012, March 25-30, Orlando, FL. (Acceptance ratio: 278/1547=18.0%)
Nan Hua, Eric Norige, Sailesh Kumar and Bill Lynch. “Non-Crypto Hardware Hash Functions for High Performance Networking ASICs”. Published in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS) 2011, Oct 3-4, New York. (Acceptance ratio: 20/62=32.2%)
Nan Hua, Bill Lin, Jun (Jim) Xu and Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao. “BRICK: A Novel Exact Active Statistics Counter Architecture”. Published in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, Volumne 19 Issue 3, 2011.
Haiquan Zhao, Nan Hua, Ashwin Lall, Ping Li, Jia Wang and Jun (Jim) Xu. "Towards a Universal Sketch for Origin-Destination Network Measurements", Published in Proc of 8th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC) 2011, Oct 21-23, Changsha, China.
Nan Hua, Ashwin Lall, Justin Romberg, Jun (Jim) Xu, Mustafa al’Absi, Emre Ertin, Santosh Kumar and Shikhar Suri. "Just-in-time Sampling and Pre-filtering for Wearable Physiological Sensors: Going from Days to Weeks of Operation on a Single Charge". Published in Proc. of Wireless Health 2010, San Diego, CA. Oct 5-7, 2010.
Bill Lin, Jun (Jim) Xu, Nan Hua, Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao and Hao Wang. "A Randomized Interleaved DRAM Architecture for the Maintenance of Exact Statistics Counters". Published in ACM SIGMETRICS (poster), Seattle, WA June 15-19, 2009.
Nan Hua, Haoyu Song and T.V.Lakshman. “Variable-Stride Multi-Pattern Matching For Scalable Deep Packet Inspection”. Published in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2009. (Acceptance ratio: 282/1435=19.7%)
Tongqing Qiu, Jian Ni, Hao Wang, Nan Hua, Y. Richard Yang and Jun (Jim) Xu . “Packet Doppler, Network Monitoring using Packet Shift Detection”. Published in Proc. of ACM CoNext 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 29/166=17.5%)
Nan Hua, Bill Lin, Jun (Jim) Xu and Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao. “BRICK: A Novel Exact Active Statistics Counter Architecture”. Published in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS) 2008, Nov 6-7, San Jose, CA. (Acceptance ratio: 18/68=26.4%)
Nan Hua, Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Bill Lin, Jun (Jim) Xu. “Rank-Indexed Hashing: A Compact Construction of Bloom Filters and Variants”. Published in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2008, Oct 19-22, Orlando, Florida. (Acceptance Ratio: 33/202=16.3%)
Nan HUA, Peng WANG, Depeng JIN, Lieguang ZENG, Bin LIU, Gang FENG. “A Simple and Fair Scheduling Algorithm for Combined Input-Crosspoint-Queued (CICQ) Switches”. Published In Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communications (ICC) 2007, Jun 24-27, Glasgow, Scotland.
Nan HUA, Yang XU, Bin LIU, Depeng JIN, Lieguang ZENG. “Emulating FCFS OQ with Buffered Crossbar based Distributed Shared Memory Switch”. Published In Proc. of IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing(HPSR) 2007, May 31-Jun 1, New York.
Nan HUA, Yang XU, Peng WANG, Depeng JIN, Lieguang ZENG. “A Practical Switch-Memory- Switch Architecture Emulating PIFO OQ”.Published In Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. (GLOBECOM) 2006, Nov 28-31, San Francisco. (paper)(talk)
Peng WANG, Chao ZHANG, Nan HUA, Depeng JIN, Lieguang ZENG. “The Design of a Monolithic MSTP ASIC”. Published In IEICE TRANS On Electronics, Aug, 2006.

Patent Application

Nan Hua, T.V. Lakshman, Haoyu Song. “Variable-stride Stream Segmentation and Multi-pattern Matching”. US Patent Application, No. 12/425,576, 04/17/2009. Publication Date: 10/21/2010.

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Professional Services

Serve as reviewer for IEEE ICC'08, ACM SIGMETRICS'08, IEEE ICNP'08, IEEE Communications Letters, IET Communications, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Computers.

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Teaching Assistant

2008 Spring: CS 8803-DS Algorithmic Techniques for Managing Massive Data Sets

2008 Fall: CS 7260 Design and Analysis of Network/Router Algorithms and Hardware

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Miscellaneous

Hobbies: Hiking, Running, Traveling.
Special Hobby: A railway fan, interested in all aspects of railway, such as scheduling, locomotives, management, and the interaction between the transportation system and the modern society.
My Facebook Link: http://www.facebook.com/people/Nan_Hua/639422228 .
My Xiaonei Link ("Facebook" in China): http://xiaonei.com/GetUser3.do?id=2667 .

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