Yudi Huang

Research Interest

My interests lie in developing fast and high-fidelity simulators for the digital twin for wireless communications. I am currently working on NVIDIA Aerial Omniverse Digital Twin. In the past, I also worked on

Inference and control in overlay networks.
Machine learning enhanced signal processing for wireless communications.
Failure detection and prevension in smart grid

Education

2019.9-2024.5 Ph.D in Pennsylvania State University. Advisor: Dr. Ting He
2016.9-2019.6 M.S. in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Advisor: Dr. Yingchang Liang
2012.9-2016.6 B.S. in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Advisor: Dr. Yingchang Liang

Employment

2024.6-now Software Engineer, NVIDIA
2023.5-2023.8 Software Intern, 5G and 6G RAN digital twin, NVIDIA
2016.9-2019.6 Research Assistant, Pennsylvania State University

Publications

My Up-to-data Favorite Three:

Y.-D. Huang, Yilei Lin, and T. He, “Optimized Cross-Path Attacks via Adversarial Reconnaissance,” in ACM SIGMETRICS, 2023.
Y.-D. Huang, and T. He, “Overlay Routing Over an Uncooperative Underlay,” in ACM MobiHoc, 2023.
Y.-D. Huang, T. He, N. R. Chaudhuri, and T. La Porta, “Preventing Outages under Coordinated Cyber-Physical Attack with Secured PMUs,” in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2022.

All Papers:

Y.-D. Huang, Tingyang Sun, and T. He, “Overlay-based Decentralized Federated Learning in Bandwidth-limited Networks,” in ACM MobiHoc, 2024.
Y.-D. Huang, Yilei Lin, and T. He, “Optimized Cross-Path Attacks via Adversarial Reconnaissance,” in ACM SIGMETRICS, 2023.
Y.-D. Huang, and T. He, “Overlay Routing Over an Uncooperative Underlay,” in ACM MobiHoc, 2023.
Y.-D. Huang, T. He, N. R. Chaudhuri, and T. La Porta, “Preventing Outages under Coordinated Cyber-Physical Attack with Secured PMUs,” in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2022.
Y.-D. Huang, T. He, N. R. Chaudhuri, and T. La Porta, “Link State Estimation under Cyber-Physical Attacks: Theory and Algorithms,” in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2022.
Y.-D. Huang, T. He, N. R. Chaudhuri, and T. La Porta, “Preventing Outages under Coordinated Cyber-Physical Attack with Secured PMUs,” in IEEE SmartGridComm, 2021.
Y.-D. Huang, T. He, N. R. Chaudhuri, and T. La Porta, “Power grid state estimation under general cyber-physical attacks,” in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids(SmartGridComm). IEEE, 2020, pp. 1–68. (Best Paper Runner-up)
Y.-D. Huang, Y.-C. Liang, and F. Gao, “Channel estimation in FDD massive MIMO systems based on block-structureddictionary learning,” in 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). IEEE, 2019, pp. 1–6.
J. Tian, Y. Pei, Y.-D. Huang, and Y.-C. Liang, “Modulation-constrained clustering approach to blind modulationclassification for MIMO systems,”IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 4, no. 4, pp.894–907, 2018.
Q. Zhang, P. P. Liang, Y.-D. Huang, Y. Pei, and Y.-C. Liang, “Label-assisted transmission for short packet communications: A machine learning approach,”IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 8846–8859, 2018.
Y.-D. Huang, P. P. Liang, Q. Zhang, and Y.-C. Liang, “A machine learning approach to MIMO communications,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). IEEE, 2018, pp. 1–6.
J. Tian, Y. Pei, Y.-D. Huang, and Y.-C. Liang, “A machine learning approach to blind modulation classification for MIMO systems,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). IEEE, 2018, pp. 1–6.
Y.-D. Huang, J. Tan, and Y.-C. Liang, “Wireless big data: transforming heterogeneous networks to smart networks,”Journalof Communications and Information Networks, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 19–32, 2017.
Y.-D. Huang, Y.-C. Liang, and G. Yang, “A fuzzy support vector machine algorithm for cooperative spectrum sensing withnoise uncertainty,” in 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). IEEE, 2016, pp. 1–6.

Services

Reviewer:

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS)
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II (TCAS-II)
Elsevier Digital Signal Processing
IEEE INFOCOM
IEEE Access

Awards

2023, ACM MobiHoc, NSF Student Travel Grant
2020, IEEE SmartGridComm'2020 NSF Student Travel Grant
2020, IEEE SmartGridComm'2020 Best Paper Runner-up
2018, First Prize of Academic Scholarship, UESTC
2017, National Scholarships, UESTC (top 1%)
2016, Enrollment Scholarship for Master Student
2016, Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis Award of UESTC
2015, National Scholarships, UESTC (top 1%)
2011, 1-st prize in National Mathematics Olympiad in Senior (Chongqing Division)