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

Scientific data system design and consulting

Advanced MATLAB Programming:
MATLAB program design/structuring for complex data systems.
MATLAB GUI Development
MATLAB Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Client-Server (Internet Transaction) Programming and Configuration
MATLAB Compiler Deployment (it's trickier than you think because of bugs and unintuitive design decisions)

Data Acquisition System and Instrumentation Deployment:
MATLAB Data Acquisition, GPIB Instrument Control. (Also used MATLAB with Agilent/Acqiris AP200 Average, DP211 Digitizer, Lecroy LSA1000)
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

施主席的轟趴全系列

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”

Old hobby gears for sale

[US$5000] (HP sells it for US$15,000) HP/Agilent (Acqiris) U1081A (AP200) Digitizer/Analyzer/Averager 500Mhz (2GS/s)

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.

Jiang Zheming’s rage (1).

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

The Australian: Charles and the Great Chinese Takeaway [February 24, 2006]

90% of my thoughts can be characterized 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 essay:

道德的起源 (Source of Ethics)

My favorite commentaries

肉壩 – 花柳護航 (刁民公園)

My favorite Onion News Articles

Johnson & Johnson Introduces ‘Nothing But Tears’ Shampoo To Toughen Up Newborns

My favorite names (for the sake of their sounds)

Benjamin Dover (Bend over), Michael Kane (My Cocaine)

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 those 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）

Women: You have no values. Your whole life, it's nihilism, it's cynicism, it's sarcasm, and orgasm.
Harry (Woody Allen): You know, in France I could run on that slogan and win.

- Woody Allen | "Deconstructing Harry"

Miscellaneous

For my own use only: Links