Education background
Bachelor of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1996;
Ph.D. in Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2002.
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
Distributed/Grid Computing and its Applications in Earth Observation and Navigation
Cluster Computing and its Applications
National Natural Science Foundation of China:Research on Context-Centric Application Automation in Grid (2008-2010);
National 863 High-Tech Program: Research on Key Technologies of Applying Grid to Forestry (2009-2010);
National 863 High-Tech Program: Research on Key Software of On-Demand Data Services for Heterogeneous Spatial Data (2007-2010).
Research Status
Since 2002, with the funding help from National 863 High-Tech Program and National Natural Science Foundation, my colleagues (Prof. G.Q. Li from CEODE and Dr. X. Zhang from CAF) and I have been working on applying the theories and technologies of grid/distributed computing to the Earth Observation and Navigation domain. Contributions of our research include:
1. We proposed architecture for Spatial Information Grid (SIG), developed a runtime environment of SIG, and created the world's first SIG prototype in 2003.
2. To improve the flexibility of SIG services, we proposed an on-demand service mechanism, which outperforms traditional mechanism in mass-data processing. We have also researched on context-centric application automation methods for easier and quicker SIG application development. Our method automatically executes the procedures of situation acquirement, processing, and matching, and then generates a "situational SIG application" without any input from developers.
3. For the purposes of resource sharing and application execution, a series of SIG middleware have been developed, including SIG Container and SIG Runtime Environment (SIGRE). We have also designed and developed SIG Application Engine to provide runtime support and web-based user interfaces.
4. To address the issues of managing and distributing remote sensing data from multiple sources, we have designed and implemented a SIG-based distribution system, which dispatches remote sensing data from different sources and of different types and formats, and provides a one-stop on-demand service for data consumers.
5. We have been actively pushing our work to real application domains. Our first SIG prototype has drawn great attentions from international practitioners when presented in WGISS 2003. During "5.12" Sichuan earthquake in 2008, our SIG technologies were used to efficiently set up a remote sensing data distribution system from multiple sources such as USGS and ESA. Besides, our research on SIG has also been used in areas of forestry resource management, flood monitoring, and disaster response.
Administrative and Service Responsibilities
CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites): Member of WGISS (2007-).
Honors And Awards
Science & Technology Progress Award by City of Shanghai, First Class-ZiQiang 2000 High Performance Computer System SUHPCS (2001).
Academic Achievement
[1] Z.C. Huang, S.L. Li, IPULOC - Exploring Dynamic Program Locality with the Instruction Processing Unit for Filling Memory Gap,Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol.17, no.2, p172-180, 2002
[2] Z.C. Huang, B. Du, L. Gu, C. He, S.L. Li, Distributed Grid Resource Registry Meta-Service: Design and Implementation,Proc. the 7th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, April 4-6, 2005, Chengdu, China, p531-535
[3] Z.C. Huang, C. He, L. Gu, J.F. Wu, On-demand service in grid: Architecture, design and implementation,Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, July 20 - 22, 2005, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Fukuoka, Japan, p674-678
[4] Z.C. Huang, G.Q. Li, Y. Zeng, Building data infrastructure for Geo-computation by Spatial Information Grid,Proc. 6th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing(GCC2007), 16-18, August, 2007, Urumchi, Xinjing, China, p630-635
[5] Z.C. Huang, On-demand Data Service for the Next Generation Spatial Data Infrastructure,Proc. 2009 Fifth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG2009), Oct. 12-14, 2009, ZhuHai, China, p286-289
[6] Z.C. Huang, G.Q. Li, B. Du, Y.Zeng, L. Gu, SIGRE - An autonomic spatial information grid runtime environment for geo-computation,Proc. 7th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies(APPT 2007), Nov. 22-23 2007, Guangzhou, China, p 322-329
