Tao Huang

Tao (Kevin) Huang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electronics and information engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2003, the M.Eng. degree in sensor system signal processing from The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 2016.

 

He was an Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; a Research Associate at the University of New South Wales; and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at JCU. Before joining academia, he held industry roles as a Senior Engineer, a Senior Data Scientist, a Project Team Lead, and a Technical Lead. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at James Cook University (JCU), Cairns, QLD, Australia, where he serves as the Head of the International Partnerships at the College of Science and Engineering. He is a co-inventor of an international patent on multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems. 

 

Kevin’s awards include the Australian Postgraduate Award, the Engineering Research Award from the University of New South Wales, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in 2011, the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award in 2022, the IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor Recognition in 2023 and 2024, and the JCU Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2022. He currently serves as the Vice Chair for the IEEE Northern Australia Section and the Chair for the local MTT-S/ComSoc Chapter. He previously served as the Chair for the IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group, IEEE Northern Australia Section. He has also held leadership roles in international conferences, including a workshop co-chair, a publication co-chair, a technical program committee chair, a program vice chair, and a symposium chair. He is an Associate Editor of Scientific Reports, IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY, IEEE ACCESS, and IET Communications.

Kevin is an expert in deep learning, computer vision, object detection, medical image processing, and wireless communications. For more information about his recent updates, research and projects, please visit the Intelligent Computing and Communications Lab at https://www.taoicclab.com/.

Industry and research collaborations are always welcome. Please feel free to contact me.

If you are a prospective higher degree research candidate with strong motivation and a solid track record in research or programming, and are interested in working with me, I encourage you to get in touch with me.

My email: tao.huang1 (at) jcu (dot) edu (dot) au