CV

By Yuan Ho | November 10, 2019

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Natural language processing
  • Data mining
  • Machine learning

 

EDUCATION

Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan
Sep. 2001 – Jun. 2003

  • Degree: Master of Science
  • Master’s thesis: “An Initial Study on Automatic Summarization of Chinese Spoken Documents”
  • Supervisor: Professor Lin-Shan Lee
  • Average: 90.94 / 100; ranking: 13th / 87

Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan
Sep. 1996 – Jun. 2000

  • NTU is the top 1 university in Taiwan
  • EE, NTU is the top 1 engineering and science school in Taiwan
  • Degree: Bachelor of Science in Engineering
  • Average: 90.92 / 100; ranking: 2nd / 158

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MediaTek Inc., wireless communications software department

System on Chip Software Engineer

Hsinchu, Taiwan
Jun. 2003 – Oct. 2013

  • MediaTek is the world’s 4th largest IC design company
  • 2G (GSM/GPRS) modem development
    • Hardware simulation and network simulation
    • TTY (CTM) modem driver design, coding, and testing
  • 3G (WCDMA) modem development
    • Physical layer driver design, coding, and testing
    • RF driver design, coding, and testing
    • HW-SW co-simulation, FPGA, EVB integration test and debug
  • 3.5G (HSPA+) modem development
    • Physical layer driver design, coding, and testing
    • 3GPP conformance test and in-operator test
    • Field trial performance analysis and improvement
  • 4G (LTE) modem development
    • DSP firmware performance optimization

MediaTek Inc., wireless communications software department

Senior System on Chip Software Engineer

Hsinchu, Taiwan
Jun. 2017 – Present

  • 5G (NR) modem development
    • Software/firmware partition, interface discussion, and architecture design
    • Cross-site communication and negotiation
  • Introduction of machine learning into modem driver development

 

PUBLICATION

  1. Lin-Shan Lee, Yuan Ho, Jia-Fu Chen, Shun-Chuan Chen, ‘Why is the Special Structure of the Language Important for Chinese Spoken Language Processing? – Examples on Spoken Document Retrieval, Segmentation, and Summarization,’ EUROSPEECH 2003 – INTERSPEECH 2003, 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, 1–4 September 2003.

 

AWARDS & HONORS

Presidential Award * 6

EE, NTU, 1996 – 2000

  • For the top 5% of students in the department each semester

Teaching Assistant

GICE, NTU, 2001 – 2002

  • Course: “Digital Signal Processing” and “Signals and Systems”

Texas Instruments DSP Solutions Design Challenge – Excellent Award

1999

  • Subject: “DSP Technique on Laser Doppler Velocimetry for Measurements of Blood Flow”

International Physics Olympiad Competition national team training camp

1996

  • For selected 25 excellent high school students nationwide

National Math Competition for high school students – 3rd place

1995

 

PATENTS

Signal processing method and communication apparatus utilizing the same

U.S. Patent 8,463,198, filed Jul. 15, 2009, issued Jun. 11, 2013

  • Yuan Ho, WS Yin, JY Tsai, IP Chang, Lucien Huang, EricCC Hsu
  • A novel method to reduce call-drop rate and handover delay by tweaking the filtering algorithm of measurement reporting.

U.S. Patent 9,185,660, filed Feb, 6, 2012, issued Nov. 10, 2015

  • Ralf Weng, Yuan Ho, Joe Li, Charles Hsu, Jerry Ho, QZ Huang
  • A novel method to increase uplink throughput by adjusting the uplink power ratio between data channel and control channel using HARQ ACK rate as an indicator.

 

  • Programming languages: C, C++, Python
  • Engineering tools: Hardware simulator, network simulator

 

Contact

 

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