YAO HUA HO (yho@csie.ntnu.edu.tw) has been an appointed Assistant Professor (Tenured) in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) at the National Taiwan Normal University since Feb. 2018. He joined the department in Feb. 2012. Dr. Ho received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida in 2001, 2002, and 2009, respectively. 

Dr. Ho has an extensive academic and research background, contributing significantly to various domains in computer science, information engineering, and interdisciplinary research, including Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), Environmental Sensing, Big Data Analysis, Intelligent Vehicles and Transportation, Mobile and Wireless Networks (WLAN/WSN/ MANET/VNET), Wireless Communication Protocols, Software Defined Networks (SDN), Named Data Networks (NDN), Application/System and Platform Design (Grid/ Distributed/Cloud), Mobile Applications (iPhone/Android), Social Network and Computing, Trajectory Pattern Mining, Location Aware Services, Network Protocols, Network Measurements, Database, and Video Streaming and Video-On-Demand. 

Dr. Ho's research has been widely published in esteemed journals and conferences, including several papers recognized as best/top papers at various international conferences. Noteworthy articles include "Reinforcement Learning Approach for Adaptive Road Shoulder Traffic Control" (Neural Computing and Applications - Part of Springer Nature, November 2023), “ADF: an Anomaly Detection Framework for Large-scale PM2.5 Sensing Systems” (IEEE Internet of Things Journal, April 2018, 166 citations), and “An Open Framework for Participatory PM2.5 Monitoring in Smart Cities” (IEEE Access, July 2017, 110 citations). These works reflect his commitment to exploring novel approaches in Intelligent Transportation systems and Artificial Intelligence of Thing systems. Dr. Ho's contributions to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic are evident in articles such as "Predicting Risk of COVID-19 Outbreak" (Atmosphere, October 2022) and "COVID-19 Pandemic Analysis for a Country’s Ability to Control the Outbreak Using Little’s Law" (Sustainability, May 2021). 

Dr. Ho's book chapter, "Routing Protocols in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication," published in "Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications: A Technical Approach" (Taylor & Francis LLC, CRC Press, May 2017), explores communication protocols in vehicular networks. Additionally, his collaborative work on a U.S. patent, "Posture Stability Detection System and Detection Method using the SAME," demonstrates innovation in postural stability detection (U.S. Application No. 18/143,873, 05/05/2023).

Dr. Ho has been actively involved in numerous research projects and grants. Notably, his leadership in the project "Expanding Sport Science Research Capabilities and Bridging Research Results" (June 2023 to Present) addresses air pollution concerns through a Healthy Route Recommendation System. Similarly, his work on “Development of Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System for Proactive Control of Respiratory Infectious Diseases” with the Taiwan Center for Disease Control (CDC) tackles respiratory disease prevention by developing low-cost indoor air quality monitoring devices and strategic deployment with real-time data analysis and prediction using artificial neural networks.  In the "Creating a Safe Learning Environment in the Age of Respiratory Infectious Diseases Pandemic" project, his work emphasizes the development of indoor air quality sensing devices for educational settings. His commitment to environmental and community well-being is further evident in projects like "Participatory Sensing for Outdoor-Indoor Air Quality Monitoring" and "Biological Impacts of Climate Change on Mountain Regions."

As an experienced educator, Dr. Ho has taught a diverse range of courses at institutions such as National Taiwan Normal University, National Taiwan University, and the University of Central Florida. His teaching portfolio spans topics from Internet of Things and Operating Systems to Advanced Computer Networks. Dr. Ho's impact extends globally, showcasing his dedication to advancing knowledge through research, innovation, and education.

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, United States (2002/6-2009/6)

• Rank 70 in Computer Science by U.S. News in 2023

• GPA: 3.9/4.00 (Graduate Top 1% of Class '09)

• Dissertation: Connectionless Approach - a Localised Scheme to Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (100+ total citations with journals and conferences on this topic)

• Outstanding Dissertation Award Nomination (Runner-up)

• Full Fellowship Award

• Advisor: Dr. Kien A. Hua (IEEE Follower, Inventor of Video-On-Demand, VoD, peer-to-peer data sharing, and communications) of Data Systems Group

M.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, United States (2001/1-2002/6)

• Full Fellowship Award

• President's List (2002 and 2003)

• Honor Societies - Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Blue Key

B.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, United States (1997/6-2001/1)

• Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)

• Environmental Sensing

• Big Data Analysis

• Mobile and Wireless Network (WLAN/Sensor/Vehicular/Mobile Ad Hoc)

• Network Protocols

• Software-Defined Network (SDN)

• Named Data Network (NDN)

• Localization using Signal Strength

• Application/System and Platform Design (Grid/Distributed/Cloud/Mobile)

• Mobile Applications (iPhone/Android/Sensors)

• Social Networking and Computing

• Network Measurements

• Database/Data Analysis 

• Video Streaming and Video-on-Demand

See Publication Page for list of my publication

• Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (2018/2 - present)

• Associate Dean, School of Continuing Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (2019/8 - 2021/8)

• Assistance Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (2012/2 - 2018/2)

• Director, Office of International Affairs (OIA), National Taiwan Normal University (2015/2 ~ 2017/4)

• Visiting Scholars, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2013/11 - 2018/10)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science and Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2009/9 - 2012/1)

• Visiting Research Fellow, Intelligent Systems Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2011/3–2011/4)

• Founder, Hall Solutions LLC, United States (2007/1–2009/9)

• Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, United States (2005/1–2009/1)

• Research Assistant/Engineer, Symantec Corporation, United States (2005/1–2009/6)

• Director, Kenson Enterprise Inc., United States (2001/1–2009/9)

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

• Operating System, Spring 2012 ~ 2015, 2018 ~ Present

• Wireless Communication, Spring 2012 ~ Present 

• Introduction to Internet of Things, Fall 2018 ~ Present

• Advance Computer Networks, Spring 2013, 2015 ~ 2018, 2020 ~ Present

• Data Communication, Fall 2012 ~ 2014

Computer and Information Networking Center, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

• Java Programming, Summer 2010 and Fall 2010

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, USA

• Concepts in Computer Science, Summer 2008 – Summer 2009

• Design and Implement of Computer Communication Networks, Summer 2008

• Introduction to Computer Science, Spring 2008

• Computer Fundamentals for Business, Fall 2008

• Computer Forensics I (Graduate Level), Fall 2006

• Advance Database Management System (Graduate Level), Fall 2004

• Transaction Processing System (Graduate Level), Spring 2004

• Parallel & Distributed Databases (Graduate Level), Fall 2003

Creating a Safe Learning Environment in the Age of Respiratory Infectious Diseases Pandemic (Aug. 2021 to present)

• Sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under Grant Number MOST 110-2221-E-003-001

• Develop a miniature indoor air quality sensing device and strategically deploy the air sensing device for air quality detection to prevent the spreading of the flu and respiratory infectious diseases for learning environments.

Development of Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System for Proactive Control of Respiratory Infectious Diseases (Jan. 2019 to 2021)

• Sponsored by Taiwan Center for Disease Control (CDC) under Grant No.: MOHW108-CDC-C-114-113701, MOHW109-CDC-C-114-123601, and MOHW110-CDC-C-114-133501.

• Tackle the disease surveillance problem by developing low-cost indoor air quality monitoring devices and strategic deployment with real-time data analysis.

Open Collaborative Platform for Multi-Drones to Support Search and Rescue Operations (Jan. 2019 to 2020)

• Sponsored by National Taiwan Normal University.

• Proposed an Open Collaborative Platform for multiple drones to assist Search and rescue operations. 

Participatory Sensing for Outdoo-Indoor Air Quality Monitoring (April. 2019 to March 2020)

• Sponsored by 2019 Collaboration Development Fund.

• Collaborating with Penn State University to develop an artificial intelligent-enhanced, low-cost sensor to protect building occupants from the deleterious effects of poor outdoor air. 

Biological Impacts of Climate Change on Mountain Regions: An Integrative Study (Jan. 2017 to 2019)

• Sponsored by Sustainability Science Research Project, Academia Sinica, Taiwan under Grant Number MOST AS-106-SS-A05.

• Focus on climate change in global mountain regions using drones with sensors for data collection, including simulation modeling and empirical validation. 

Participatory Urban Sensing (PUS) for Particulate Matter (P.M. 2.5) Monitoring  (Aug. 2016 to July 2018)

• • Sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under Grant Number MOST 105-2221-E-001-016-MY3.

  • Proposed participatory urban sensing (PUS) framework based on open hardware, open-source software, and open data.

Insect Body Color and Temperature Regulation under the Effect of Climate Change: An Integrative Research (Jan. 2017 to Dec. 2018)

• Sponsored by Seed Grand Challenges in Data Science Research, Academia Sinica.

• Using different data analysis approaches, we try to answer the impact of climate change with the long-term view that organisms with temperature differences. 

An Open Software-Defined Network (SDN) Platform with Virtual Framework (Aug. 2015 to July 2017)

• Sponsored by Networked Communications Program (NCP) with the National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan under Grant Number NSC104-2221-E-003-001.

• Proposed a cost-effective Virtual SDN Framework and Test-bed that is a lightweight protocol to achieve network virtualization with a fully optimized automated, and cost-effective network. 

Assisting Search and Rescue Operations using Wi-Fi Signal with UAV (Oct. 2015 to Sept. 2016)

• • Sponsored by DJI Cooperation.

  • Propose a system with UAV to support Search and Rescue Operations by detecting wireless signals from mobile phones. 

Failure-Resilient Wireless Mesh Network for Disaster Recovery (Aug. 2012 to July 2015)

• • Sponsored by Networked Communications Program (NCP) with the National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan under Grant Number NSC101-2218-E-003-001-MY3.

  • Build a failure-resilient wireless mesh network that can temporarily withstand one or multiple failed mesh nodes until they can be fixed. 

Power Conservation for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Disaster Recover (July 2013 to Feb. 2014)

• • Sponsored by Networked Communications Program (NCP) with the National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan under Grant Number NSC 102-2815-C-003-012-E.

  • Proposed a Dynamic Data Aggregation for Energy Conservation technique for efficient management of data traffic over wireless mobile clients and wireless mesh networkS.

Platform for Location-Aware Service with Human Computation (Sept. 2009 to May 2012)

• • Sponsored by Networked Communications Program (NCP) with the National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan under Grant Number NSC98-2219-E-001-001.

  • Build a scalable distributed open platform for location-aware services using cloud computing technology and human computing concept.

Failure-Resilient Vehicular Networks (Aug. 2009 to July. 2013)

• Sponsored by National Science Foundation, USA under Grant Number CNS-0917082.

• Proposed Scalable Wireless Mesh Network with a resilient VNET to support roadside communications.

Real-Time Route Diversion System (RTRDS) for VNET and MANET (Jan. 2008 to Jun. 2009 )

• • Sponsored by Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Research Contract No.: BD548-2 and University of Central Florida (UCF Project No.: 104315), USA.

  • Proposed a dynamic route diversion that balances the workload of virtual routers.

Cooperation Enforcement Technique for VNET and MANET (Jan. 2007 to Dec. 2008)

• • Sponsored by University of Central Florida, USA.

  • Proposed a 3-Counter Enforcement technique to detect and punish misbehaving nodes. 

Symantec® Backup Storage Grid Project (Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2007)

• • Sponsored by Symantec Corporation, USA.

  • Proposed a virtual backup server for Symantec Back Exec using Data Grid Architecture.

Virtual Router for MANET and VNET (Jan. 2003 to Dec. 2005)

• • Sponsored by National Science Foundation, USA.

  • Proposed a virtual router concept to the multi-hop wireless network. 

Awards 

• Outstanding Senior Faculty Teacher Award (110.資深優良教師獎), 2020

• Erasmus Program International Credit Teaching Mobility, 2019.

• Outstanding Faculty Teacher Award (104.教學優良獎), 2015.

• Outstanding Faculty Teacher Award (103.教學優良獎), 2014.

• Outstanding Dissertation Award Nomination, University of Central Florida, 2009.

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ), 2008.

• Top Paper Award, IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC), 2008.

• Ph.D. Fellowship Award, University of Central, 2002 – 2009.

• M.S. Fellowship Award, University of Central, 2001 – 2002.

• President’s List, University of Central Florida, 2002 and 2003.

Honors

• Honorary Member, Blue Key Honor Society, University of Central Florida, 2004.

• Honorary Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) – International Honor Society for Computing Sciences, Computer Science Department, University of Central Florida, 2003.

Memberships

• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Program Committee Member 

• International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) (2014)

• IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Mobile Computing & Vehicle Communications Symposium (2014)

• IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC) (2013) (2014)

• IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) (2013)

• IEEE International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications, Integration and Collaboration (SOAIC) 2013

• IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media) (2011, 2012, 2013)

• IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) (2013)

• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS) (2011)

• International Workshop on Applications of Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (AWASN) (2011)

• Journal Referee

• IEEE Transactions on Computers (2015)

• Journal of Information Science and Engineering (2014)

• International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering (IJCSSE) (2014)

• IEEE Communications Magazine (2013)

• International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (2013)

• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2011)

• Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2011)

• Sensor Journal (2011)

• Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal (2010)

• International Journal on Parallel, Emergent and Distributed System (2010)

• International Journal on Communication Network and Distributed System (IJCNDS) (2010)

• IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology (2010)

• International Journal of Communication System (2010)

• International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Application (MTAP) (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed System (TPDS) (2004, 2005)

Conference Referee

• • IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) (2015)

  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (2015)

  • Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) (2014)

  • IFIP Wireless Days Conference (WD)(2011, 2015)

  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (2014)

  • IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) (2014)

  • IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) (2013)

  • International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium (ICNC-WAHS) (2012)

  • ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) 2011

  • IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) (2011)

  • IEEE Int’l Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT) (2011)

  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) (2009, 2010, 2011)

  • Int’l Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) (2007, 2008, 2010)

  • International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) (2010)

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Conference (VTC) (2009, 2010)

  • International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ) (2009)

  • IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media) (2008)

  • IEEE Int’l Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS) (2008)

  • IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC) (2008).

  • International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) (2006)

  • ACM Multimedia (2005, 2006)

  • IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (2005)

  • Int’l Conference on Communications and Computer Network (CCN) (2005)

Founding Proposal Referee

• Fondecyt National Research Funding Competition (2009)

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposal (2008, 2009)

Invited Talks/Demo

• Invited Talk, Disaster Resilient Communication and Applications, Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS), July 8, 2014.

• Invited Talk, Introduction to Computer Science, Taipei Municipal Neihu High School, July 8, 2014.

• Invited Talk, Research to Reality: Applying Concepts to Practice, Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University of Tainan, March. 10, 2014.

• Invited Talk, Research to Reality: Applying Concepts to Practice, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National University of Tainan, Dec. 28, 2011.

• Invited Talk, How to Turn Research to Reality, Department of Information and Computer Engineering, Chung Yuan University, Nov. 25, 2011.

• Academia Sinica Open House Display of Research Achievements, Location-based Service Development Platform for Mobile Phone App (手機定位感知服務和手機軟體快速開發模組的服務), Oct. 22, 2011. 

• Invited Demo, Open Service Platform for Developing Location Based Mobile Applications,  Vee Telecom Multimedia Co., Ltd, Oct. 3, 2011.

• Invited Demo, PLASH: A Platform for Location Aware Services with Human Computation, Taipei Int’l Invention Show and Technomart.  Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 29 – Oct. 2, 2011.

• Invited Demo, PLASH: Platform for Location Aware Service with Human Computation, Social Networks and Mobile Applications Technology Conference, National Taiwan University, May 24, 2011. 

• Invited Talk, A Lazy Processing Approach to User Relevance Feedback for Content-based Image Retrieval, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval, 2010.

• Invited Talk, Research to Reality: Apply Concepts to Practice, Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, 2010. 

• Invited Presentation, PLASH: Platform for Location Aware Service with Human Computation, Academia Sinica Open House, 2010. 

• Invited Talk, Highly Dynamic Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Advanced Network Technologies and Services Laboratory, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2009.  

• Invited Speaker, Virtual Router for VENET, Industry Day Presentation, University of Central Florida, USA, 2009

• Invited Speaker, A Software Approach to Storage Backup, IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC): Industry Track, Hawaii, USA, 2008.

• Invited Speaker, Dynamic Route Diversion in Vehicular Network, IEEE 15th Int’l Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008.

• Invited Speaker, Dynamic Route Diversion in Connectionless Mobile Ad Hoc Network. IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), Chongqing, China, 2008.

• Invited Speaker, Cooperation Enforcement in Vehicular Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ) Bucharest, Romania, 2008.

• Invited Speaker, Storage Backup for Back EXEC, Symantec ® Cutting Edge Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2007.

• Invited Speaker, Semi-Split TCP: Maintaining End-to-End Semantics for Split TCP. IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Dublin, Ireland, 2007.

• Invited Speaker, Performance Study of Live Video Streaming over Highway Vehicular Ad hoc Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communication (WiVEC), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2007.  

• Invited Speaker, Adapting Connectionless Approach to Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Obstacle Environment. IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Phuket, Thailand, 2006.

• Invited Speaker, A Connectionless Approach to Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Streets Environment, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2005.

• Invited Speaker, Real-Time Evacuation Management under Multiple Coordinated Human-Caused Threats, 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2005.

• Invited Speaker, Adapting Connectionless Approach to Ad-hoc Networks in Urban Environments, International Conference on Wireless Network, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2005.

• Invited Speaker, A Connectionless Approach to Mobile Ad Hoc Network, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). Alexandria, Egypt, 2004.

• Invited Speaker, Range Multicast Routers for Large-Scale Deployment of Multimedia Application, ACM Multimedia, NY, USA, 2004.

• Invited Speaker, ASIA: An Automatic Annotation Technique for Query-by-concept in Image Retrieval Systems, International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), Taipei, Taiwan, 2003.