EASEC - 11
November 19-21, 2008, Taipei, Taiwan
Speakers
Beauty of Engr.
in TAIWAN
Professor Norden E. Huang
Director
Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis
National Central University
Email: Norden@ncu.edu.tw
Personal website
Title of lecture
Structural Health Monitoring using Adaptive Data Analysis Method
Education
Ph.D.,
Fluid Mechanics and Mathematics
Johns Hopkins University, 1967
Biographical Statement
Dr. Norden Huang, a Senior Fellow and the Chief Scientist for Oceanography at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, held a Bachelor Degreein Civil Engineering from the National Taiwan University, and a Doctoral degree (1967) in Fluid Mechanics and Mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University. In the past, he has been working on nonlinear random ocean waves and air-sea interaction processes. His recent research has concentrated in the development of a new method, the Hilbert Huang Transform, specifically to process nonstationary and nonlinear time series. Over the last few years, he has applied this method to analyze data in a variety of areas covering nonlinear ocean wave evolution data; earthquake signals and structure responses; bridge and structural health monitoring; biomedical signals such as blood pressure fluctuations; long term environmental data such as global temperature variations, Antarctic ice extents records, and solar irradiance variance; hydro-machinery design, machine vibration data, speech analysis, and musical signal enhancement. His current research interests are in the above areas. This invention has been filed by NASA in five different Patents covering nonlinear and nonstationary data analysis in geophysics, biomechanics, acoustics, and engineering. For this invention, he was awarded the 1998 NASA Special Space Act Award with the citation, '[Dr. Huang's new method] is one of the most important discoveries in the field of applied mathematics in NASA history.' He was also the winner of the 1999 Federal Government Technical Leadership Award, and the 2001 Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Development Award. For his contribution in the field of nonstationary and nonlinear data analysis, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2000.
Awards and Honors
1. NASA Medal for Exceptional Technology Achievement, 2005
2. Ademician, Academia Sinica, 2004
3. Presidential Rank Meritorious Award, 2004
4. Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2000
5. NASA Inventor of the Year, 2003
6. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, James Kerley Award, 2003
7. NASA Exceptional Space Act Award, 2003
8. NASA Exceptional Space Act Award, 2002
9. Outstanding Alumnus, Civil Engineering Department, National
Taiwan University, 2001.
10. Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Development Award,
2001
11. Federal Government Technology Leadership Award, 1999
12. NASA Exceptional Space Act Award, 1998
13. NASA Laboratory for Hydrospheric Process, Best Publication Award,
1997
14. NASA Medal for Meritorious Service, 1985
15. Whitehead Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1962 1967
Research
Dr. Huang serves as an Associate editor for Journal of Physical Oceanography, and has published more than 90 refereed papers on subjects covering the applications of Remote Sensing of the oceans, physical oceanography, air-sea interaction processes, statistical structure of ocean surface micro-scale phenomena, ocean engineering and coastal processes, biomedical processes, and earthquake engineering. Currently, Dr. Huang is engaged in expanding the applications of HHT method. His most recent work is on speech anbalysis and musical signal conditioning. He is also actively pursuing the studying of inter-relationship between diferent, but related, data sets to find the causal relationships among various natural forces for climate variations, and the expansion of the HHT to two-dimensional data.
Publication
HHT is a topic growing in popularity in so many research communities today that we can do our own Internet search to identify relevant HHT papers in your specific area of interest.