EDUCATION
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2019
Current GPA: 4.0/4.0
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, USA
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2015
GPA: 3.9/4.0
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Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
Bachelor of Science in Automation, July 2013
GPA:3.3/4.0
SKILLS
- Programming Languages: C/C++, Verilog HDL, Java, Python, SQL
- Software & tools: MATLAB, Visual Studio, Vivado, GNU Radio, My SQL
- Wireless & communication knowledge: software defined radio (SDR), digital communication system, body area network, IEEE 802 family, wireless localization, channel modeling
- Hardware knowledge: FPGA, pipelining and reconfigurable design
RESARCH EXPERIENCE
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Topic: Machine Learning Methods on Carrier Frequency Synchronizations for OFDM and non-OFDM systems, Aug 2018-Present
With the fast development of machine learning and neural network, traditional communication is heading to a stage where intelligent transceivers are brought to reality. While doing carrier frequency synchronization, we take effort to bring machine learning method, especially neural network to train the synchronization units so that it could intelligently recover the frequency offsets.
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Topic: Maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) Based Carrier Frequency Synchronization for MIMO System, Aug 2016-Jul 2018
For MIMO systems, carrier frequency offset (CFO) is usually the first to be estimated and recovered. We investigate the flat-fading channel and propose a MAP based carrier frequency offset algorithm that takes both prior knowledge of CFO distribution and maximum likelihood based CFO estimate to estimate the CFO.
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Topic: Module Based Design of Communication Systems on FPGA Based Software Defined Radio, Aug 2015-Aug 2016
The software defined radio (SDR) has become a popular platform for prototyping digital communication systems. We propose a complete module-based communication system with all necessary components for transmitter and receiver, designed and targeted on an FPGA-based SDR. All DSP units are implement on the FPGAs of the SDR platform.
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Topic: Localization Inside Human Body Using TOA Techniques, May 2014-May 2015
We work on localizing the RF implant device such as WCE, etc. Time of Arrival is now mainly selected topic. The software we are using is SEMCAD X from SPEAG, which provides a standard medical phantom family of human body with more than a hundred organs. The goal is to find and validate the ranging error of RF localization algorithms both in homogeneous tissue and heterogeneous tissue.
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Topic: Measurement of Motion of Wireless Capsule Endoscope Using Image Techniques, Oct 2013-Apr 2014
We acquired the images taken by wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) inside human gastrointestinal tract, and measure the motion of WCE including rotation and displacement. In this research, we developed a new approach using mutual information method, a more global and robust algorithm other than those based on local information to achieve more efficient results with better performance.
PUBLICATIONS
- Mingda Zhou, Guanqun Bao, and Kaveh Pahlavan, “Measurement of Motion Detection of Wireless Capsule Endoscope Inside Large Intestine”, EMBC’14, Chicago, USA, August 26-30, 2014.
- Mingda Zhou, Guanqun Bao, Yishuang Geng, et al, “Polyp Detection and Radius Measurement in Small Intestine Using Video Capsule Endoscopy”, BMEI’14 , Dalian, China, October 14-16, 2014
- Guanqun Bao, Liang Mi, Yishuang Geng, Mingda Zhou and Kaveh Pahlavan, “A Video-based Speed Estimation Technique for Localizing the Wireless Capsule Endoscope inside Gastrointestinal Tract”, EMBC’14, Chicago, USA, August 26-30, 2014.
- Yongtao Ma, Mingda Zhou and Kaveh Pahlavan, “Research of Phase of Arrival Based Ranging in Body Area Networks and Its Channel Modeling”, Journal in Selected Area of Communication, under review
- Mingda Zhou and Kaveh Pahlavan, “On the Accuracy of In-body TOA Ranging Inside the Gastrointestinal Tract Using Carrier Frequency”, WTS 2015, New York, USA, April 15-17, 2015
- Dan Liu, Mingda Zhou, Yishuang Geng and Kaveh Pahlavan, “Power Efficient Relay Networking for BANs in Non-Homogeneous Environment”, WoWMoM 2015, Boston, USA, June 14-17, 2015
- Dan Liu, Yishuang Geng, Guanxiong Liu, Mingda Zhou and Kaveh Pahlavan, “WBANs-Spa An Energy Efficient Relay Algorithm for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy”, VTC 2015, Boston, USA, September 6-9, 2015
- Mingda Zhou, Xinming Huang, Yuteng Zhou, Xing Li, and Eugene Liu, “FPGA Implementation of an Distributed Sum Rate Maximization”, ICASSP 2017, New Orleans, USA, March 5-9, 2017
- Zhe Feng, Xing Li, Eugene Liu, Mingda Zhou, Xin Cai and Xinming Huang, “SDR Implementation of the Dual Link Algorithm in TDD Mode using USRP E310”, GRCon 2016, Boulder, USA, September 12-16, 2016
- Xin Cai, Mingda Zhou, Tian Xia, Wai H Fong, Wing Lee, Xinming Huang. “Low-Power SDR Design on an FPGA for Intersatellite Communications”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, May, 2018.
- Mingda Zhou, Zhe Feng, Youjian Liu, Xinming Huang, “An Efficient Algorithm and Hardware Architecture for Maximum-Likelihood Based Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation in MIMO Systems”, IEEE Access, September, 2018
TECHNICAL SERVICES
- Reviewer: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2017
- Reviewer: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2016
- Reviewer: IEEE International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT) 2016
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
