Ming-Chun Huang

Ming-Chun Huang

10900 Euclid Ave. Phone: (216) 368-0397Cleveland, OH-44106 Email: ming-chun.huang@case.eduhttp://engineering.case.edu/groups/sail/

PARTICULARS

PRESENT POSITION

Tenure-Track Assistant ProfessorElectrical Engineering and Computer ScienceCase Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH August 2014 - Present

InvestigatorAdvanced Platform Technology (APT) CenterDepartment of Veterans Affairs Medical Center August 2014 - Present

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles, CAPh. D. in Computer Science September 2010 - July 2014

University of Southern California, CAM. S. in Electrical Engineering August 2008 - May 2010

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TaiwanB. S. in Electrical Engineering Septermber 2003 - June 2007

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests are generally in the areas of mHealth, wearable sensing systems design, clinical diagnosis, andhuman factors research. In particular, I focus on developing new sensing prototypes and exploring the interactionand the impact between humans and their accustomed everyday devices. Specifically, I aim to create novel devicesand analytical algorithms that offer enhanced functionality and performance over conventional tools and technologiesin terms of portability, rapid analysis times, and user-friendly operation. My research direction (personalizedhealth/ mobile health) is at the interdisciplinary junction of innovative sensing technology, mutual two-way patient-machine-caregiver interaction, and health informatics. The main challenges and my contributions are identifyingunmet needs, formulating observations into engineering problems, developing practical prototypes, and evaluatingsystem feasibility, reliability, and performance. My research vision is to explore creative solutions to address currentand emerging challenges facing our society in the 21st century including global healthcare and personalized medicalservice. I am committed to establishing and leading multidisciplinary teams that will develop innovative engineeringsystems and technologies for healthcare applications.

HONORS

• Poster Competition Graduate Winner, Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWIC’17), Huron,USA, February 2017

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Implantable and Wearable Body Sensor Networks(BSN’13), Boston, USA, May 2013

• Best Demo Paper Award, ACM Conference on Wireless Health (WH’11), San Diego, USA, October 2011

Ming-Chun Huang

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), August 2014 - Present

• Investigator, Advanced Platform Technology (APT), Department of Veterans Affairs MedicalCenter, August 2014 - Present

• Director, SAIL@Case: Sensing and Interaction Laboratory at CWRU, August 2014 - PresentSAIL@Case is established for developing next-generation wearable sensing and mobile interaction systems.Specifically, We aim to create novel devices that offer enhanced functionality and performance over conven-tional tools and technologies in terms of portability, rapid analysis, and user-friendly operation. Our researchvision is to explore creative solutions to address current and emerging challenges in our society, includingpersonalized healthcare and occupational safety.

• Principle Engineer, Medisens Inc., June 2011 - June 2014Leading a technical team for innovative product development in tele-medicine applications.Responsible for system architecture, hardware and software development.Innovated and patented a series of cutting-edge techniques in medical informatics analysis.

• Research Assistant, UCLA, June 2011 - August 2012Biodetector Design for Rapid Malaria DiagnosisFunded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, under Dr. Lillehoj

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor EECS410: Mobile Health (mHealth) Technology, Case Western Reserve University,Fall 2016

• Assistant Professor EECS397/600: Mobile Computing and Sensor Network, Case Western Reserve Uni-versity, Fall 2015

• Assistant Professor EECS600: Personalized Health Technology, Case Western Reserve University, Spring2015

• Teaching Assistant CS152/EE116: Digital Circuit Design Laboratory, Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh, Universityof California, Los Angeles, Fall 2011 - Spring 2014

• Teaching Assistant Software Construction, Prof. Paul Eggert, University of California, Los Angele, Spring2011

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL PAPERS

• [J17] Jiawei Cui, Guanzhou Qu, James Starkman, Jia Chen, Xiao Zeng, Elizabeth Madigan, Miriam Pekarek,Wenyao Xu, Ming-Chun Huang, ”Wireless Portable Gait Lab System Providing Quantitative StatisticalSupport for Human Balance Tests”, to appear Elsevier Journal: Smart Health

• [J16] Haotian Jiang, James Starkman, Menghan Liu, Ming-Chun Huang, ”Food Nutrition Visualization onGoogle Glass: Design Trade-off and Field Evaluation”, to appear IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

• [J15] Xiaowei Xu, Feng Lin, Aosen Wang, Yu Hu, Ming-Chun Huang, Wenyao Xu, ”Body-Earth Mover’sDistance: A Matching-Based Approach for Sleep Posture Recognition”, to appear IEEE Transactions onBiomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS)

• [J14] Menghan Liu, Haotian Jiang, Jia Chen, Ming-Chun Huang, ”Tidal Volume Estimation Using PortableUltrasound Imaging System”, IEEE Sensors Journal (SJ), Volume: 16, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 9014 - 9020

• [J13] Ming-Chun Huang, Jason J. Liu, Wenyao Xu, Changzhan Gu, Changzhi Li, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”ASelf-Calibrating Radar Sensor System Design for Measuring Vital Signs”, IEEE Transactions on BiomedicalCircuits and Systems (TBioCAS), Volume 10, Number 2, April 2016, Pages 352 - 363

• [J12] Menghan Liu and Ming-Chun Huang, ”Asthma Pattern Identification via Continuous Diaphragm MotionMonitoring”, IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS), Volume 1, Issue 2, October2015, Pages 76 - 84

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• [J11] Jason J. Liu, Ming-Chun Huang, Wenyao Xu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Luke Stevens, Nabil Alshurafa, MajidSarrafzadeh, ”BreathSens: A Continuous On-Bed Respiratory Monitoring System with Torso Localizationusing an Unobtrusive Pressure Sensing Array”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI),Volume 19, Issue 5, September 2015, Pages 1682 - 1688

• [J10] Yu-Ju Lee, Ming-Chun Huang, Xiaoyi Zhang, Wenyao Xu, ”FridgeNet: A Nutrition and Social ActivityPromotion Platform for Aging Population”, IEEE Intelligent Systems (IS), Volume 30, Issue 4, July 2015,Pages 23-30

• [J09] Yingxiao Wu, Wenyao Xu, Jason J. Liu, Ming-Chun Huang, Shuang Luan and Yu-Ju Lee, ”An Energy-Efficient Adaptive Sensing Framework for Gait Monitoring Using Smart Insole ”, IEEE Sensors Journal (SJ),Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2015, Pages 2335 - 2343

• [J08] Nabil Alshurafa, Wenyao Xu, Jason J. Liu, Ming-Chun Huang, Bobak Jack Mortazavi, Majid Sar-rafzadeh, ”Designing a Robust Activity Recognition Framework for Health and Exergaming using WearableSensors”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), Volume 18, Issue 2, September 2014,Pages 1636 - 1646

• [J07] Lauren Samy, Ming-Chun Huang, Jason J. Liu, Wenayo Xu, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”Unobtrusive SleepStage Identification Using a Pressure Sensitive Bed Sheet”, IEEE Sensors Journal (SJ), Volume 14, Issue 7,July 2014, Pages 2092 - 2101

• [J06] Ming-Chun Huang, Si-Huei Lee, Shih-Ching Yeh, Rai-Chi Chan, Albert Rizzo, Wenyao Xu, Wu Han-Lin,Lin Shan-hui, ”Intelligent Frozen Shoulder Rehabilitation”, IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal (IS), Volume29, Number 3, May-June, 2014, Pages 22 - 28

• [J05] Shih-Ching Yeh, Ming-Chun Huang, Pa-Chun Wang, Te-Yung Fang, Mu-Chun Su, Po-Yi Tsai, AlbertRizzo, ”Machine Learning-based Assessment Tool for Imbalance and Vestibular Dysfunction with VirtualReality Rehabilitation System”, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (CMPB), Volume 116,Issue 3, May 2014, Pages 311 - 318

• [J04] Ming-Chun Huang, Jason J. Liu, Wenyao Xu, Nabil Alshurafa, Xiaoyi Zhang, Majid Sarrafzadeh,”Using Pressure Map Sequences for Recognition of On Bed Rehabilitation Exercises”, Journal of Biomedicaland Health Informatics (J-BHI), Volume 18, Number 2, March 2014, Pages 411 - 418

• [J03] Jason J. Liu, Wenyao Xu, Ming-Chun Huang, Nabil Alshurafa, Majid Sarrafzadeh, Nitin Raut, BehroozYadegar, ”Sleep Posture Analysis using using a Dense Pressure Sensitive Bedsheet”, Elsevier Pervasive andMobile Computing Journal (PMC), Volume 10, Issue 2, February 2014, Pages 34 - 50

• [J02] Wenyao Xu, Ming-Chun Huang, Navid Amini, Lei He, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”eCushion: A Textile PressureSensor Array Design and Calibration for Sitting Posture Analysis”, IEEE Sensors Journal (SJ), Volume 13,Number 10, Octorber 2013, Pages 3926 - 3934

• [J01] Peter B. Lillehoj, Ming-Chun. Huang, Newton Truong, Chih-Ming Ho, ”Rapid Electrochemical Detec-tion on a Mobile Phone”, Lab on a Chip, Volumne 13, Issue 15, May 2013, Pages 2950 - 2955

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• [C21] Menghan Liu, Haotian Jiang, Jia Chen, Alaa Badokhon, Xuetao Wei, Ming-Chun Huang, ”A Collabora-tive Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning System in Distributed Mobile Environment”, International Conferenceon Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI’16), Las Vegas, USA, December 2016

• [C20] Xuetao Wei, Michael Wolf, Lei Guo, Kyu Hyung Lee, Ming-Chun Huang, and Nan Niu, ”emphaSSL:Towards Emphasis as a Mechanism to Harden Networking Security in Android Apps” IEEE Globecom(GLOBECOM’16), Washington DC, USA, December 2016

• [C19] Dong Qin and Ming-Chun Huang, ”A smart phone based gait monitor system”, EAI InternationalConference on Body Area Networks (Bodynets’15), Sydney, Australia, September 2015

• [C18] Haotian Jiang, James Starkman, Chih-Hung Kuo, and Ming-Chun Huang, ”AcuGlass: Quantify-ing Acupuncture Therapy using Google Glass”, EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks(Bodynets’15), Sydney, Australia, September 2015

• [C17] Shuya Chen, Yu-Ching Lan, Yi-Ru Zheng, Ho Huang, Wen-Dien Chang, Shih-Ching Yeh and Ming-Chun Huang, ”Usability of a Low-Cost Wearable Health Device for Physical Activity and Sleep Duration inHealthy Adults”, Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare (MobileHealth’15),Hangzhou, China, June 2015

• [C16] Jason J. Liu, Ming-Chun Huang, Wenyao Xu, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”Bodyparts Localization for PressureUlcer Prevention”, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’14), Chicago, USA, August2014

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• [C15] Ming-Chun Huang, Xiaoyi Zhang, Wenyao Xu, Jason J. Liu, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”EZwakeup: a sleepenvironment design for sleep quality improvement”, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in ComputingSystems (CHI’14), Toronto, Canada, April 2014 (Extended Abstract)

• [C14] Xiaoyi Zhang, Ming-Chun Huang, Fengbo Ren, Wenyao Xu, Nan Guan, Wang Yi, ”Proper RunningPosture Guide: Wearable Biomechanics Capture System”, International Conference on Body Area Networks(BodyNet’13), Boston, USA, October 2013

• [C13] Xiaoyi Zhang, Wenyao Xu, Ming-Chun Huang, Navid Amini, Fengbo Ren, ”See UV on Your Skin: AnUltraviolet Sensing and Visualization System”, International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNet’13),Boston, USA, October 2013

• [C12] Ming-Chun Huang, Wenyao Xu, Jason Liu, Lei He, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”Inconspicuous Personal Com-puter Protection with Touch-Mouse”, International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI’13),Las Vegas, USA, July 2013

• [C11] Ming-Chun Huang, Wenyao Xu, Jason Liu, Lauren Samy, Amir Vajid, Nabil Alshurafa, Majid Sar-rafzadeh, ”Inconspicuous on-Bed Respiratory Rate Monitoring”, International Conference on Pervasive Tech-nologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA’13), Rhodes Island, Greece, May 2013

• [C10] Wenyao Xu, Ming-Chun Huang, Jason J. Liu, Fengbo Ren, Xinchen Shen, Xiao Liu, Majid Sarrafzadeh,”mCOPD: Mobile Phone Based Lung Function Diagnosis and Exercise System for COPD”, InternationalConference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA’13), Rhodes Island,Greece, May 2013

• [C09] Jason J. Liu, Ming-Chun Huang, Wenyao Xu, Nabil Alshurafa, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”On-bed Monitor-ing for Range of Motion Exercises with a Pressure Sensitive Bedsheet”, IEEE International Conference onImplantable and Wearable Body Sensor Networks (BSN’13), Boston, USA, May 2013 (Best Paper Award)

• [C08] Nabil Alshurafa, Wenyao Xu, Jason J. Liu, Ming-Chun Huang, Bobak Mortazavi, Christian Roberts,Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”Robust Human Intensity-Varying Activity Recognition using Stochastic Approximationin Wearable Sensors”, IEEE International Conference on Implantable and Wearable Body Sensor Networks(BSN’13), Boston, USA, May 2013

• [C07] Jason Liu, Wenyao Xu, Ming-Chun Huang, Nabil Alshurafa, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”A Dense PressureSensitive Bedsheet Design for Unobtrusive Sleep Posture Monitoring”, IEEE International Conference onPervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom’13), San Diego, USA, March 2013

• [C06] Peter. B. Lillehoj, Ming-Chun Huang, Chih-Ming Ho, ”A Handheld Cell Phone-Based ElectrochemicalBiodetector”, IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS’13), Taipei,Taiwan, January 2013

• [C05] Ming-Chun Huang, Wenyao Xu, Yi Su,Chien-Yen Chang, Belinda Lange, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”SmartGlove for Upper Extremities Rehabilitative Gaming Assessment”, International Conference on PervasiveTechnologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA’12), Crete Island, Greece, June 2012

• [C04] Wenyao Xu, Ming-Chun Huang, Navid Amini, Jason Liu, Lei He, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”SmartInsole: AWearable System for Gait Analysis”, International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to AssistiveEnvironments (PETRA’12), Crete Island, Greece, June 2012

• [C03] Ming-Chun Huang, Ethan Chen, Wenyao Xu, Majid Sarrafzadeh, ”Gaming for Upper ExtremitiesRehabilitation”, ACM Conference on Wireless Health (WH’11), San Diego, USA, October 2011 (Best DemoPaper Award)

• [C02] Navid Amini, Wenyao Xu, Zhinan Li, Ming-Chun Huang, Majid Sarrafzadeh. ”Experimental Analysisof IEEE 802.15.4 for On/Off Body Communications”, IEEE Symposium on Personal Indoor Mobile RadioCommunications (PIMRC’11), Toronto, Canada, September 2011

• [C01] Wenyao Xu, Zhinan Li, Ming-Chun Huang, Navid Amini, Majid Sarrafzadeh. ”eCushion: An eTextileDevice for Sitting Posture Analysis”, IEEE Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN’11), Dallas, USA,May 2011

TECHNICAL REPORTS

• Jared Lindblom, Ming-Chun Huang, Jeff Burke, Lixia Zhang, ”FileSync over Named Data Networking” (NDNTechnical Report NDN-0012, March 2013)

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BOOK CHAPTERS

• Wenyao Xu and Ming-Chun Huang, ”TOTAL HEALTH: Toward Continuous Personal Monitoring”, WearableElectronics Sensors, Volume 15, 2015 Springer

• Ming-Chun Huang, Shuya Chen, Pa-Chun Wang, Mu-Chun Su, Yen-Po Hung, Chia-Huang Chang, Shih-ChingYeh, ”Automate Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Evaluation for Chronic Imbalance and Vestibular DysfunctionPatients”, Advanced Technologies, Embedded and Multimedia for Human-centric Computing Lecture Notesin Electrical Engineering, Volume 260, 2014, Pages 1099 - 1105

PATENTS & APPLICATIONS

1. US Patent: 0,101,765 A1: ”Non-invasively Determining Respiration Rate using Pressure Sensors”, 2013

2. US Patent: 0,113,794 A1: ”On-bed Monitoring System for Range of Motion Exercises with a PressureSensitive Bed Sheet”, 2013

3. US Patent: 0,113,704 A1: ”Data Fusion and Mutual Calibration for a Sensor Network and a Vision System”,2012

4. US Patent: 0,323,501 A1: ”Fabric-Based Pressure Sensor Arrays and Methods for Data Analysis”, 2012

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Associate Editor, Journal of Science and Applications: Biomedicine (2015-present)

• Publicity Co-Chair, MobileHealth 2015 workshop (2015)

• Program Committee, International Conference on Digital Health (2015-2016), Smart rehabilitation workshopon International conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (2016), IEEE Consumer Communicationsand Networking Conference (2016) IEEE Globecom (2015), International Conference on Current and FutureTrends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (2015), ACM UbiComp workshop onSmart Health Systems and Applications (2014)

SERVICE

Reviewer (Journals)IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Pervasive and Mo-bile Computing, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on HumanMachine Systems, IEEE Transactions onMultiScale Computing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Reviewer (Conferences)IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE Body Sensor Network Con-ference, WLSA Wireless Health, EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks

Advisees at Sensing And Interaction Laboratory (SAIL@Case)

:

• Ph.D. Students: Haotian Jiang, Diliang Chen, and Yi Cai

• M.S Students: Menghan Liu (Graduated in Fall 2016), James Starkman, Alaa Badokhon, Jia Chen, XiaoliangZhang, and Taiyu Chen

• Undergraduate Students: Jiawei Cui(Graduated in Spring 2016), Guanzhou Qu, Xiao Zeng, Kylie Duan, andJustin Green

• K12 Students: Kevin Arbeznik, Alan Bahr, and Matthew French

Ming-Chun Huang

Ongoing Research Support

DOD Army Research; Huang (co-I); 4/1/17 to 3/31/19; $7,682Identifying and managing MS fatigue phenotypes by developing an artificially intelligent smartwatch appThe proposed study is consistent with the MSRP program of high-risk, high gain in that its focus is on discoveringnovel fatigue phenotypes and algorithms. Data from the proposed observational study will be used to develop asmartwatch app, which will subsequently be tested in a randomized controlled pilot trial.Role: co-I

NSF Division of Computer and Network Systems; Huang (PI); 2/15/17 to 1/31/19; $250,000EAGER: Wearable Nanofabrication Designs Create Better Fitting Intelligent Prosthetic SocketsThe objective of this project is to investigate force distribution between the stump and socket by developing awireless sensing device and a force visualization system. This proposal explores an accurate force-sensing designusing a unique three-dimensional nanowall network structure, which allows the fabrication of a robust sensor ar-ray on a flexible platform for quantitative pressure and shear force measurement. This interdisciplinary researchproject consists of sensor material synthesis, device fabrication, platform and signal processing unit design for thestump-socket interface application, and a machine learning-based solution to analyze the information that affectsthe sense of comfortable fit.Role: PI

Ohio Occupational Safety and Health Research Program; Huang (PI); 06/01/15 to 05/31/17; $249,975Prevent work-related injuries in construction industry, wholesale, and retail trades workspaces using wearable com-puter technologyThe goal of this study is to design a portable and user-friendly wearable computer solution for extracting gait, bal-ance, and body posture information from real-time streaming sensor data analysis, enable objective identificationof risk factors throughout the day and during a variety of natural activities in WRT environment, and developappropriate practice to enhance occupational safety and health for construction and retail workers.Role: PI

Completed Research Support

School of Medicine/NIH subaward; Huang (subaward-PI); 07/01/15 to 06/30/16; $90,657Auto Control StandingInnovative wearable accessory and application designs have the potential to extend impact of wearable computersto elderly care and clinical rehabilitation. Balance is one way to evaluate whether there is some mental or physicalproblems with ones health. It is especially meaningful for the elderly to assess performance of tasks essential todaily living and for determination of falls risk. The aim of this project is to further testing of smart insole devicesto improve the balance estimation and use the common motion capture system-VICON at the traditional gait labat Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center as a comparison.Role: Subaward-PI

Nord award; Huang (PI); 07/10/15-05/30/16; $5,619Wireless Radon Detector NetworkProposed wireless radon detector network design project gives a good opportunity for engineering students to learnthe mechanism of software and radon detector hardware in a functional system design. Active learning consisting ofmaking mobile sensor network system design, measurement, data analysis, and discussion leads to the advancementof their problem-solving ability in a well-formulated daily-life engineering scenario.Role: PI

Google Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research Award ; Huang (PI); 05/15/16 to 09/30/16; evaluation kitsIn this study, Google IoT technology is exploited to design and implement an intelligent monitoring/control sys-tem inside the Olin Building at Case Western Reserve University. An end-user development capable prototypeenables in-building energy consumption and interactive lighting control using Brillo, a lightweight Android-basedOS; Weave, a protocol that works by default as a core service in Brillo; and Android clients apps, to facilitatecommunication among Intel Edison devices. This prototype using standardized modular systems architecture willdemonstrate an example of how users interact with, manage and control an ensemble of devices in this connectedenvironment.Role: PI