Haoran Duan

SUMMARY of TECHNICAL ABILITY

• Switching/Queuing Systems & Line Adapt Cards for Broadband LAN / MAN / WAN.
  (ATM, TCP/IP, 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet, FDDI, etc);
• FPGA application, VLSI/ASIC design; VHDL, Mentor Graphics, HSPICE, Verilog HDL;
• Computer Architecture, Microprocessor, CPU Embedded Control Schemes;
• Programming: C, C++, Fortran, and Assembly code;
• Performance Analysis and Evaluation, Event-driven Simulation for Circuit and/or System;
• UNIX System Administrations, EDA Software Tools Installation and Configuration;
• Self-motivated and Work Well with Others.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D (Fall 1996), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign.
  • GPA: 4.9/5.0
  • Dissertation: Design and Development of Queuing, Cell Processing, and Cell Scheduling Modules for the iPOINT ATM Testbed.
• M.S. (Dec. 1992), Telecommunication (EE), University of Southwestern Louisiana.
  • GPA: 4.0/4.0
• B.S. (July 1988), Electrical Engineering (EE), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, People's Republic of China.
  • Technical GPA: 3.8/4.0
  • Award: Excellent Senior Graduate.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

• Summer 96 - 93: NSF CCSM Engineering Research Center; Mentor of Undergraduate Projects.
  Projects Supervised:
  • VHDL design of FPGA logic (96);
  • Analog circuit development using Mentor Graphics (95);
  • PCB layout using Mentor Graphics (94);
  • FPGA logic design/prototype using Xilinx XACT (93).
  
  
• Summer 95: Motorola (Chandler, AZ; ASIC Division); Engineering Summer Intern.
  Responsibility:
  • Investigate ATM LAN emulation mechanisms/specifications;
  • Define the architecture and independently code the behavior model of a LAN ATM cell processor ASIC device (counterpart of ATMC MC92500).
  
  
• Jan. 93 - present: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Graduate Research Assistant.
  Key member of iPOINT (Illinois Pulsar-based Optical INTERconnect) research project.
  Responsibility/Achievements:
  • Independently investigate optimal queuing/cell scheduling mechanism and prototype key components for ATM computer network (Ph.D dissertation), including PCB design/layout, FPGA logic design with schematic/VHDL Tools, system level testing/verification, etc;
  • Independently code simulation programs (traffic generation, device behavior module) for performance analysis (Ph.D dissertation);
  • Prototype / demonstrate a fully functional ATM switch system testbed (team work, details refer to publications).
  
  
• Jan. 94 - May 95: Beckman Institute; Unix System Administrator.
  Responsibility:
  • Administrate the computer LAN of OEIC Research Lab, which consists of Unix workstations, Macintoshes, 486/Pentium PCs, and network peripherals.
  
  
• 1991 - 92: University of Southwestern Louisiana; Graduate Teaching Assistant.
  • Teach/Grade Undergraduate Lab Classes: Telecom II, Electrical Circuit II.
  
  
• 1988 - 91: The No.1 Research Institute of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of P. R. China.
  Research engineer of PDS-800 project (developing advanced ISDN PBX systems).
  Achievements :
  • Independently design / develop a customized 16-bit microcomputer used as central controller of the PBX system;
  • Design / test of hardware software of the PBX control subsystem (team work).
  
  

PUBLICATIONS

• H. Duan, J. W. Lockwood, S. M. Kang, and J. D. Will, "A High-performance OC-12/OC-48 Queue Design Prototype for Input-buffered ATM Switches."
  To be published on INFORMCOM'97 . Abstract .

• H. Duan, J. W. Lockwood, S. M. Kang, and J. D. Will, "A 3-Dimensional Queue System for Practical Ultra-broadband Input-buffered ATM Switches." Submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on Advances in ATM Switching Systems for B-ISDN.

• Ashfaq Hossain, John Lockwood, Haoran Duan, and S. M. Kang, "Multicast Video Transport Over iPOINT ATM Testbed." Submitted to IEEE Journal on Special Areas in Communications on Real-Time Video Services in Multimedia Networks.
  

• J. W. Lockwood, S. M. Kang, S. G. Bishop, H. Duan, and A. Hossain, "Development of the iPOINT Testbed for Optoelectronic Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networking." Proceedings of 1996 International Conference on Information Infrastructure (IICI'96), April 25-28, 1996, Beijing, China. pp. 509-513. Abstract .

• H. Duan, J. W. Lockwood, and S. M. Kang, "An Efficient Input Queuing and Cell Scheduling Scheme for Scalable Ultra-Broadband Optoelectronic ATM Switching." Emerging High-speed Local-area Networks and Wide-area Networks, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 2608, pp 107-208. Photonics East'95 Conference, October 24-26, 1995, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Abstract .

• J. W. Lockwood, H. Duan, J. J. Morikuni, S. M. Kang, S. Akkineni, and R. H. Campbell, "Scalable Optoelectronic ATM Networks: The iPOINT Fully Functional Testbed." IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, June 1995, pages 1093-1103. Abstract

• S. M. Kang, J. W. Lockwood, and H. Duan, " A Scalable Optoelectronic ATM Network for Workstations." SPIE Proceedings, November 1994, Boston, Massachusetts.

• H. Duan, J. W. Lockwood, and S. M. Kang, "FPGA Prototype Queuing Module For High Performance ATM Switching." Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE International ASIC Conference, pp 429-432. ASIC'94, September 19-23, 1994, Rochester, New York. Abstract

• J. W. Lockwood and H. Duan, "Table-Look-Up (TLU) Field Programmable ate Array (FPGA) Logic Mapping." Beckman Technical Report UIUC-BI-VLSI-94-02, May, 1994 [~38 pages].

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS and ACTIVITIES

• Member: IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
• Member: IEEE Communication Society.
• Member: IEEE Computer Society.
• Member: OSA (Optical Society of America).
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems.
• Reviewer: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

REFERENCES

• All publications, technical reports, and other related references are either on-line or available upon request.
• Sung Mo Kang
  • Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois.
  • Voice: 1-217-333-2301.
  • Email: kang@ece.uiuc.edu
• John W. Lockwood
  • Beckman Institute, University of Illinois.
  • Voice: 1-217-244-1565.
  • email: lockwood@ipoint.vlsi.uiuc.edu