Po-Chun Huang (黃柏鈞)

Call for Collaboration

• We are recruiting highly motivated students pursuing Ph.D. or M.S. degree and plan to work in either academic or industrial areas in the future. Basic requirements:

  • Programming proficiency in C, C++, Python, Rust, or Go.

  • Technical communication skills in Chinese or English.

  • Compulsory backgrounds in Operating Systems and Computer Architecture/Organization. 

  • Optional backgrounds in Databases, Data Mining, or Machine Learning. 

  • Experiences of using Subversion (SVN) or Git.

• B.S. students are also welcomed to enroll our long-term plan to develop the aforementioned professional skills to get themselves well prepared for pursuing M.S. or Ph.D. degrees afterwards.  

Academic Services

• Reviewing for international conferences/journals: I have reviewed over 200 articles for international journals or conferences in the area of computer science.

• Accepting research cooperation with academic or industry fields.

• Accepting featured lectures or talks

  • Nonvolatile memories (NVMs) and storage media

  • Hardware-software co-designed data structures and algorithms

  • Operating systems

  • Computer architecture/organization

  • C/C++ programming techniques and hacks

  • Linux introduction

  • LaTeX introduction

  • Research methods and tools

  • Technical writing and drawing

Honors & Awards

• 中華民國國科會資訊工程學門 111年度「優良計畫執行成果獎」，計畫名稱「斯格明子賽道記憶體之效能及可靠性提升策略」

• 110學年度電資學院研究躍昇獎，National Taipei University of Technology, 2021.

• 109學年度電資學院教學優良獎，National Taipei University of Technology, 2021.

• 元智大學輔導與服務傑出獎，Yuan Ze University, 2015.

Education & Working Experiences

• 2025/2 ~ Now,  Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) (國立陽明交通大學), Hsinchu, Taiwan.

• 2024/2 ~ 2025/1, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (國立臺灣科技大學), Taipei, Taiwan.

• 2022/8 ~ 2024/1, Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology (國立臺北科技大學), Taipei, Taiwan.

• 2019/8 ~ 2020/7, Division Director of Planning Division, Office of Academic Affairs (教務處綜合企劃組組長), National Taipei University of Technology (國立臺北科技大學), Taipei, Taiwan.

• 2017/8 ~ 2019/7, Division Director of Graduate Division, Office of Academic Affairs (教務處研究生教務組組長), National Taipei University of Technology (國立臺北科技大學), Taipei, Taiwan.

• 2017/8 ~ 2022/7, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology (國立臺北科技大學), Taipei, Taiwan.

• 2014/2 ~ 2017/7, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Yuan Ze University (元智大學), Taoyuan, Taiwan.

• 2014/1, Regular Postdoctoral Research Fellow (中央研究院院聘一般博士後研究), Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (PI: Dr. Yuan-Hao Chang)

• 2013/8 ~ 2013/12, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (計畫聘博士後研究), Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (PI: Dr. Yuan-Hao Chang)

• 2012/9 ~ 2013/8, Draftee, Alternative Military Service at National Airborne Service Corps, Taipei, Taiwan.

• 2012/6 ~ 2012/9, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (計畫聘博士後研究), Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (PI: Dr. Yuan-Hao Chang)

• 2006/9 ~ 2012/6, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學), Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. (Advisor: Dr. Tei-Wei Kuo; co-advisor: Dr. Yuan-Hao Chang)

• 2002/9 ~ 2006/6, B.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學), Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.

• 1999 ~ 2002, Chien-Kuo Senior High School (建國高中), Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.

• 1996 ~ 1999, Gu-Ting Junior High School (古亭國中), Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.

• 1990 ~ 1996, Ying-Qiao Elementary School (螢橋國小), Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.

Research Interests

• Storage systems: NAND flash memory, persistent memories (PMs), shingled magnetic recording (SMR) disks, and skyrmion racetrack memory (SK-RM).

• Database systems: multiversion index data structures and succinct data structures.

• Data mining: frequent pattern mining (FPM), high-utility pattern mining (HUPM), and time-series data processing & analytics.

• Operating systems: Linux kernel development.

• Computer system architecture: cache/buffer designs and cross-layer system designs.

Selected Publication List

Journal Articles (*: contacting author)

1. Jalil Boukhobza*, Pierre Olivier, Wen Sheng Lim, Liang-Chi Chen, Yun-Shan Hsieh, Shin-Ting Wu, Chien-Chung Ho, Po-Chun Huang, and Yuan-Hao Chang. 2025. A Survey on Flash-Memory Storage Systems: A Host-Side Perspective. ACM Trans. Storage Just Accepted (March 2025). https://doi.org/10.1145/3723167

2. S. -T. Wu, P. -J. Chen, P. -C. Huang*, W. -K. Shih and Y. -H. Chang, "FIRM-Tree: A Multidimensional Index Structure for Reprogrammable Flash Memory," in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 43, no. 11, pp. 3600-3613, Nov. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2024.3445809.

3. Shin-Ting Wu, Liang-Chi Chen, Po-Chun Huang*, Yuan-Hao Chang, Chien-Chung Ho, and Wei-Kuan Shih, "WARM-tree: Making Quadtrees Write-efficient and Space-economic on Persistent Memories," accepted and to appear in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). (Integrated with ACM/IEEE CODES+ISSS'23)

4. Y. -S. Hsieh, Po-Chun Huang*, Y. -H. Chang, B. -J. Chen, W. Kang and W. -K. Shih, "Granularity-Driven Management for Reliable and Efficient Skyrmion Racetrack Memories," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 95-111, 1 Jan.-March 2023, doi: 10.1109/TETC.2022.3171804.

5. Y. -H. Lien, Y. -H. Chen and Po-Chun Huang*, "Enabling Efficient Random Data Insertion/Deletion on Block-Based File Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 1479-1494, 1 June 2022, doi: 10.1109/TC.2021.3092178.

6. Yun-Shan Hsieh, Po-Chun Huang*, Ping-Xiang Chen, Yuan-Hao Chang, Wang Kang, Ming-Chang Yang, and Wei-Kuan Shih, "Shift-Limited Sort: Optimizing Sorting Performance on Skyrmion Memory-Based Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 4115-4128, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2020.3012880.

7. Chaoshu Yang, Po-Chun Huang, Yi Lin, Jiaqi Dong, Duo Liu, Yujuan Tan, and Liang Liang, "Making Frequent-Pattern Mining Scalable, Efficient, and Compact on Nonvolatile Memories," in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1367-1380, July 2021, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2020.3015455.

8. Duo Liu, Xingni Li, Po-Chun Huang*, Yi Gu, Yingjian Ling, Kan Zhong, Renping Liu, Xianzhang Chen, and Liang Liang, "Downsizing Without Downgrading: Approximated Dynamic Time Warping on Nonvolatile Memories," in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 131-144, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2018.2878182.

9. D. Liu*, Y. Lin, P. -C. Huang, X. Zhu and L. Liang, "Durable and Energy Efficient In-Memory Frequent-Pattern Mining," in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 2003-2016, Dec. 2017, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2017.2681077.

10. M. -C. Yang, Y. -H. Chang, T. -W. Kuo and P. -C. Huang, "Capacity-Independent Address Mapping for Flash Storage Devices with Explosively Growing Capacity," in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 448-465, 1 Feb. 2016, doi: 10.1109/TC.2015.2428702.

11. J. Wang, K. -Y. Lam, Y. -H. Chang, J. -W. Hsieh and P. -C. Huang, "Block-Based Multi-Version B+-Tree for Flash-Based Embedded Database Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 925-940, April 2015, doi: 10.1109/TC.2014.2308213.

12. Po-Chun Huang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Kam-Yiu Lam, Jian-Tao Wang and Chien-Chin Huang, 2014, Feb "Garbage Collection for Multiversion Index in Flash-based Embedded Databases," accepted and to appear in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES). (SCI-E)

13. Po-Chun Huang*, Yuan-Hao Chang and Tei-Wei Kuo,, 2013, Oct. "An Index-Based Management Scheme with Adaptive Caching for Huge-Scale Low-Cost Embedded Flash Storages,," ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Vol. 18, Issue 4. (SCI-E)

14. Po-Chun Huang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Che-Wei Tsao, Ming-Chang Yang and Cheng-Kang Hsieh,, 2013, Dec. "Migration-based Hybrid Cache Design for File Systems over Flash Storage Devices," ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (SIG-ACR), Vol. 13, No. 4.

15. Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Chun Huang, Pei-Han Hsu, Lue-Jane Lee, Tei-Wei Kuo and David Hung-Chang Du,, 2013, Dec "Reliability Enhancement of Flash-Memory Storage Systems: An Efficient Version-Based Design," IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 62, No. 12, pp. 2503-2515. (SCI)

16. Yuan-Hao Chang, Cheng-Kang Hsieh, Po-Chun Huang and Pi-Cheng Hsiu,, 2012, Feb. "A Caching-Oriented Management Design for the Performance Enhancement of Solid-State Drives,," ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 3:1–3:21. (SCI-E)

17. Tei-Wei Kuo, Po-Chun Huang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Chia-Ling Ko and Chih-Wen Hsueh,, 2011, Spring "An Efficient Fault Detection Algorithm for NAND Flash Memory,," ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (SIG-ACR) , , Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 8–16.

Conference Papers

1. Xin Liu, Yun-Shan Hsieh, Po-Chun Huang, Wei-Kuan Shih, and Yuan-Hao Chang, IEEE 14th Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA), Singapore, 2025.

2. Yun-Shan Hsieh, Bo-Jun Chen, Po-Chun Huang, and Yuan-Hao Chang, "PRESS: Persistence Relaxation for Efficient and Secure Data Sanitization on Zoned Namespace Storage," ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Incheon, South Korea, Jan. 22-25, 2024.

3. Kai-Ting Weng, Yun-Shan Hsieh, Yen-Ting Chen, Yu-Pei Liang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Chun Huang, and Wei-Kuan Shih, "HF-Dedupe: Hierarchical Fingerprint Scheme for High Efficiency Data Deduplication on Flash-based Storage Systems," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Francisco, California, USA, Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 2023. (Top Conference)

4. Shin-Ting Wu, Liang-Chi Chen, Po-Chun Huang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Chien-Chung Ho, and Wei-Kuan Shih, "WARM-tree: Making Quadtrees Write-efficient and Space-economic on Persistent Memories," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), Germany, Sep. 17-22, 2023. (Journal Track, Integrated with ACM TECS) (Top Conference)

5. Yun-Shan Hsieh, Po-Chun Huang, Ping-Xiang Chen, Yuan-Hao Chang, Wang Kang, Ming-Chang Yang, and Wei-Kuan Shih, "Shift-limited Sort: Optimizing Sorting Performance on Skyrmion Memory based Systems," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), Germany, Sep. 20-25, 2020. (Journal Track, Integrated with IEEE TCAD) (Acceptance rate: 21.9%(28/128)) (Top Conference)

6. X. Li, Y. Gu, P. -C. Huang, D. Liu and L. Liang, "Downsampling of time-series data for approximated dynamic time warping on nonvolatile memories," 2017 IEEE 6th Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA), Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2017, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NVMSA.2017.8064474.

7. Y. Lin, P. -C. Huang, D. Liu and L. Liang, "Scalable frequent-pattern mining on nonvolatile memories," 2017 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Chiba, Japan, 2017, pp. 578-583, doi: 10.1109/ASPDAC.2017.7858386.

8. Y. Lin, P. -C. Huang, D. Liu, X. Zhu and L. Liang, "Making In-Memory Frequent Pattern Mining Durable and Energy Efficient," 2016 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2016, pp. 47-56, doi: 10.1109/ICPP.2016.13.

9. S. -C. Chou, Y. -H. Chang, Yuan-Hung Kua, P. -C. Huang, and C. -W. Tsao, "Multi-version checkpointing for flash file systems," 2016 21st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Macao, China, 2016, pp. 436-443, doi: 10.1109/ASPDAC.2016.7428051.

10. W. -L. Wang, Y. -H. Chang, P. -C. Huang, C. -H. Tu, H. -W. Wei and W. -K. Shih, "Relay-based key management to support secure deletion for resource-constrained flash-memory storage devices," 2016 21st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Macao, China, 2016, pp. 444-449, doi: 10.1109/ASPDAC.2016.7428052.

11. M. -C. Yang, Y. -H. Chang, Y. -C. Chang and P. -C. Huang, "Logical data packing for multi-chip flash-memory storage systems," 2015 IEEE Non-Volatile Memory System and Applications Symposium (NVMSA), Hong Kong, China, 2015, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NVMSA.2015.7304366.

12. Yuan-Hung Kuan, Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Chun Huang and Kam-Yiu Lam, "Space-Efficient Multiversion Index Scheme for PCM-based Embedded Database Systems," accepted by the ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2014.

13. Kam-Yiu Lam, Jian-Tao Wang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Chun Huang, Jen-Wei Hsieh, Chung Keung Poon, and ChunJiang Zhu, "Garbage Collection for Multi-version Index on Flash Memory," ACM/IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Dresden, Germany, Mar. 24-28, 2014.

14. Yu-Ming Chang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Chun Huang, Shou-Chieh Hsu, and Tei-Wei Kuo, "Adaptive Range-based Address Mapping for the Flash Storage Devices with Explosive Capacity," ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM, ICUIMC), Siem Reap, Cambodia, Jan. 9-11, 2014.

15. Po-Chun Huang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Tei-Wei Kuo, Chien-Chung Ho and Hyunseung Choo, "Joint Management of Performance-predictable Virtualized Storage Devices with Hard Disk and Flash Memory," ACM International Conference on Reliable And Convergent Systems (RACS), October 2013.

16. Chien-Chung Ho, Po-Chun Huang, Yuan-Hao Chang and Tei-Wei Kuo, "A DRAM-Flash Index for Native Flash File Systems," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), September 2013.

17. Po-Chun Huang, Kuan-Yu Tseng, Yuan-Hao Chang and Yuan-Hung Kuan, "Randomized Garbage Collection for Flash Storage Systems," The International Workshop on Non-Volatile Memory (INVM), August 2013.

18. Ming-Chang Yang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Che-Wei Tsao and Po-Chun Huang, "New ERA: New Efficient Reliability-Aware Wear Leveling for Endurance Enhancement of Flash Storage Devices," The 50th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2013.

19. Ming-Chang Yang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Chun Huang and Tei-Wei Kuo, "Working-Set-Based Address Mapping for Ultra-Large-Scaled Flash Devices," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), October 2012, (Top Conference)

20. Po-Chun Huang, Yuan-Hao Chang and Tei-Wei Kuo, "Joint Management of RAM and Flash Memory with Access Pattern Considerations," The 49th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), pages 882-887, June 2012.

21. Benny Akesson, Po-Chun Huang, Fabien Clermidy, Denis Dutoit, Kees Goossens, Yuan-Hao Chang, Tei-Wei Kuo, Pascal Vivet and Drew Wingard, "Memory Controllers for High-Performance and Real-Time MPSoCs," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), October 2011.

22. Pei-Han Hsu, Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Chun Huang, Tei-Wei Kuo and David Hung-Chang Du, "A version-based strategy for reliability enhancement of flash file systems," The 48th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), pages 29-34, June 2011.

23. Meng-Ting Wang, Po-Chun Huang, Jenq-Kuen Lee, Shang-Hong Lai, Roger Jang, Chun-Fa Chang, Chih-Wei Liu, Tei-Wei Kuo and Steve Liao, "Support of Android lab modules for embedded system curriculum," The 2010 Workshop on Embedded Systems Education (WESE), October 2010.

24. Yuan-Hao Chang, Wei-Lun Lu, Po-Chun Huang, Lue-Jane Lee and Tei-Wei Kuo, "An Efficient FTL Design for Multi-Chipped Solid-State Drives," IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), August 2010.

25. Tei-Wei Kuo, Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Chun Huang and Chang Che-Wei, "Special Issues in Flash," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pages 821-826, November 2008.

26. Po-Chun Huang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Tei-Wei Kuo, Jen-Wei Hsieh and Miller Lin, "The Behavior Analysis of Flash-Memory Storage Systems," The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing (ISORC), pages 529-534, May 2008.

Academic Activities

• TPC Member, The ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2025.

• Program Co-chair, International Workshop on Memory and Storage Computing (MSC), Co-located with ESWEEK 2025,  

• Program Co-chair, Embedded Systems Track, IEEE RTCSA 2022, Taipei.

• Executive Secretary (執行秘書), The 2016 ACM-ICPC Asia Chung-Li Regional Contest (ACM-ICPC臺灣區區賽)

• Executive Secretary (執行秘書), The 2015 National Contest for Private Universities (第五屆全國私立大專校院程式競賽)

• External conference reviewer

  • LCTES 2009, 2012

  • ICDCS 2008, 2012

  • SAC 2008, 2010, 2012

  • RTCSA 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

  • ECRTS 2009, 2011 (2 papers)

  • DAC 2011 (2 papers)

  • EMSOFT 2009 (2 papers), 2010

  • RTAS 2008, 2009, 2011

  • ISLPED 2009, 2010

  • EUC 2008, 2009, 2010

  • IWSSPS 2008, 2009

  • ASP-DAC 2008, 2010, 2013

  • RTSS 2010

  • ICECS 2010

  • ICESS 2010

  • WFCS 2010

  • ISORC 2010

  • SEUS 2009

  • VLSI 2009

  • ScalCom 2009

  • ICMeCG 2009

  • MDM 2009

  • CRTS 2008

  • APSCC 2008

  • ESTIMedia 2008

  • ICMeCG 2008

  • VLSI/CAD 2008

  • SEC 2008

  • SMC 2008

  • HPCC 2008

  • ChinaCom-WCN 2008

  • NSC 2007

  • FGCN 2007

  • SRDS 2007

  • ACSAC 2007

• (External) journal reviewer

  • TC 2012 (2 papers)

  • TECS 2012, 2013

  • TC 2010, 2012

  • TVLSI 2013

  • COMPJ 2010

  • TC 2009

  • TPDS 2009

  • TECS 2008

  • TPDS Special Issue 2008

  • COMPELECENG-D 2008

  • International Journal of Computers and Applications 2008

  • ETRI 2008

  • ACM TODAES 2008

  • JSA 2012

  • DAEM 2013