Hoi Wong

Hoi Wong

Engr. Electrical Engineering Student.
Stanford University

IHTFP!

M.S. Electrical Engineering (Graduated: Jun 2007)
Stanford University

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Mathematics (Graduated with Honors: Dec 2003)
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Email: wonghoi@stanford.edu
Email: wonghoi.ee @ gmail.com

Apt: (650) 497-3083, goes to the common area
Cell:: (650) 804-5024

Draft Resume

Click here for my current schedule

Teaching (TA) experience:

Spring 2008

Music 421 / EE367B: Applications of the Fast Fourier Transform
My Office Hours: Wednesday 7:30pm-9:30pm CCRMA 2/F Seminar Room

Fall 2006

Physics 105: Analog Electronics Laboratory

Spring 2006

BioE 200C: Medical Device, Diagnostics, and Pharmaceuticals: Technologies, Regulation, and Applications
Music 421 / EE367B: Applications of the Fast Fourier Transform

Specific Skills (Consulting Level)

Signal Processing Consulting and Algorithm Development

Advanced MATLAB Programming
MATLAB GUI Development
MATLAB Component Object Model (COM) Client-Server Programming and Configuration
MATLAB Compiler

Data Acquisition System and Instrumentation Deployment.
MATLAB Data Acquisition, Instrument Control
MATLAB Parallel and Serial Port Data Interfacing

PC-based System consulting, troubleshooting and tailor deployment based on user needs.

General Skills (See Resume)

Simulink

C# (Including GUI)
C++ (Including STL)
C (Including low-level, embedded systems programming)
Igor (Including GUI)

Embedded Systems Programming (ATmega, TMS320, ARM)
Electronic Circuits (Not IC design)

Windows Administrative Scripting

XML and XSLT Scripting

Current Research Projects:

2005-2006: EE373AB ~~(Pending: Spectral effects of non-stationary inputs on Convergence of LMS with Aaron Flores)~~
Replaced by: Macro-Adaptive Filter (To break the trade-off between convergence speed and steady-state error with incremental increase in computations)

2005: Pending - Fast Algorithms for Pseudo-periodic Parameter Estimation - Particle Swarm Optimization and Fixed Point Iteration on INRT equation)

Past Research Projects:

2005: Industry research: Automatic white balance, gain and exposure control algorithms in digital still camera.

2004-2005: Proof-of-concept prototype of neonate hearing simulator with Professor Gerald Popelka, Stanford University School of Medicine.

2003: Parameter estimation for pseudo-periodic signals with Professor William. A. Sethares, University of Wisconsin - Madison. See publication below.

Software Projects:

(MADIT-CRT) ICD study database

Software:

MATLAB Community Profile (Matlab Central Submissions)

Publication:

H. Wong and W. A. Sethares, “Estimation of Pseudo-periodic Signals”, IEEE Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Montreal, May 2004..

This is the paper I worked on when I was an undergraduate student.

We worked on algorithms that estimates the deviations parameters that makes real-life cyclical signals not exactly periodic.

After the paper was submitted, I verified that Fixed Point Iteration (FPI) works on INRT (see paper) even though I anticipated FPI is not robust enough for data dependent functions.

Write-ups:

Frequency Domain Interpretation of COLA (Constant Over-Lap Add)

The derivation of Poisson summation formula and the alternative view of COLA criterion (Nyquist) uses IDTFT, which are basically time domain equations. Therefore, I find it more like algebra than intuition. To my belief that every LTI system has a frequency domain interpretation, I spent a whole day working on it.

An observation: Poisson summation is in fact one of the tricks to derive the Fourier transform of an impulse train (which is also an impulse train). You can prove the Nyquist-COLA dual without Poisson summation if you know the impulse train Fourier pair.

More write-ups in pseudo-sciences and science education ...

Interests:

Hardware Hacking & Electronic Projects.
Microcomputer (PC) Consulting: Recommended Software List

Language Interests:

Thai sounds like Cantonese, but in an entertaining way:

Tony Jaa 泰文教室: Colors

Taiwanese Slang

眷村黑話 - Wikipedia

Japanese Comedy

痴漢の境界線

Goodies:

Geek's Amusement Park
Geek's Resources

Nations of the World (by Yakko Warner): Again, I insist: Taiwan and Hongkong are countries!
Philosophical brevity: The best Dilbert Blog post ever!

Random Links

I like people with this kind of honesty: “Seagate CEO: I help people "watch porn”

I'll get myself killed for posting this:

Myself in the last page of the Time Magazine ... this punishable by death by the standards in the evil PRC headquarters.

http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/zhuanlan/huashengdunshouji/2004/09/03/ (This Tiananmen-square massacre goodies is in Mandarin)

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/chinese_class_clown (Chinese Class Clown Executed)

My thoughts can be characterized with more than 90% accuracy by these 3 figures: George Carlin, Scott Adams, Dayo Wong (黃子華). In short, they all question accepted ideas (exactly by who?) and norms (who defined that?).

My favorite comic strip:

My favorite quote(s):

"If you have this idea in your head that there's a finish line that you can cross, then you'll probably get hit by a bus."

- Conan O' Brien | The A.V. Club (the Onion)

"Rules were made to be broken; therefore, suggestions are made to be ignored."

- Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook

"I put much more faith in people who went to established Ivy-League universities and bought their grades the old-fashioned way."

- the Onion American Voices

"Leadership is a form of evil. No one needs to lead you to do something that is obviously good for you"

- Scott Adams | Dilbert Blog

"Do you know how you can help your children? Leave them the f*** alone"

- George Carlin

"If you scratch a cynic you will find a disappointed idealist"

- George Carlin | The A.V. Club (the Onion)

"I’m not done confusing your moral compass."

- Scott Adams | Dilbert Blog

“Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn”

- Bill Watkins (CEO of Seagate) | CNN Money

「火炬應該係運動員渣，唔係呢 0的人渣。」
You can read this two ways: 1) We should leave the Olympic torch to sportsmen, not these people. 2) We should leave the Olympic torch to sportsmen, not that kind of scum.

- 網友吳伯(72歲)對曾憲梓做2008奧運火炬手的反應

「あんた達が力を合わせても無駄。ゼロは幾つ集まってもゼロ！」
Direct Translation: Even combining your efforts is futile. It doesn’t matter how many zeros you gather, you still get zero.

- CLANNADの台詞（藤林杏）

Miscellaneous

For my own use only: Links