Yunghsiang S. Han was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on
April 24, 1962. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering
from the National Tsing Hua
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1984 and 1986,
respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer and Information
Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1993. He was from 1986 to 1988 a
lecturer at Ming-Hsin Engineering College. Hsinchu, Taiwan. He was a teaching assistant from 1989 to
1992, and a research associate in the School of Computer and Information Science,
Syracuse University from 1992 to 1993. He was, from 1993 to 1997, an Associate
Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Hua
Fan College of Humanities and Technology, Taipei Hsien,
Taiwan. He was with the Department of Computer Science and Information
Engineering at National Chi Nan University, Nantou,
Taiwan from 1997 to 2004. He was promoted to Professor in 1998. He was a
visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of
Hawaii at Manoa, HI from June to October 2001, the
SUPRIA visiting research scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science and CASE center at Syracuse University, NY from September
2002 to January 2004, and the visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at University of Texas at Austin, TX from August 2008
to June 2009. He was with the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering
at National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan from August 2004 to July 2010.
From August 2010, he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering at
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
Dr. Han's
research interests are in error-control coding, wireless networks, and
security. Dr. Han has conducting state-of-the-art research in the area of
decoding error correcting codes for more than sixteen
years. He first developed an sequential-type algorithm
based on Algorithm A* from artificial intelligence. At the time, this algorithm
drew a lot of attention since it was the most efficient maximum-likelihood
decoding algorithm for binary linear block codes.
Dr. Han has also
successfully applied coding theory in the area of wireless sensor networks. He
first proposed a random key pre-distribution scheme in wireless sensor networks
based on Blom¡¦s scheme, which is an application of Reed-Solomon Codes. This scheme
drew tons of attention since it was not only a pioneer work in the respective
area but also substantially improved the resilience of the network compared to
previous schemes. This work has become extremely famous and it (along with its
conference version) has been cited more than 1000 times in seven years
according to Google scholar. It also appears in almost every book where the
security in wireless sensor networks is one of the topics.
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Dr. Han has
published 35 journal papers up to the present, among which 15 are full papers
in IEEE journals, 10 are short papers in IEEE journals, 2 are full papers in
SIAM journals, and 2 are full papers in ACM journals. Most significantly, he
has published several highly cited works on wireless sensor networks.¡@ Dr. Han has been the TPC members
for many IEEE conferences, including International Conference on Communications
(ICC) and Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). He also serves as the
editors of the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing,
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, and the Journal of
Internet Technology.
Dr. Han was the
winner of the Syracuse University Doctoral Prize in 1994 and a senior member of
IEEE.