Huilan Chang 張 惠 蘭 Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics, National University of Kaohsiung No. 700, Kaohsiung University Road, Nantzu District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 811, ROC +886-7-5916572 huilan0102@gmail.com Education B.Sc.: 1999-2003, Mathematics, Tunghai University, Taiwan M.Sc.: 2003-2005, Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Ph.D.: 2006-2010, Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Experience/ Awards Aug. 2011 July 2014: Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Aug. 2010 July 2011: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Aug. 2010 July 2011: Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 2010 Taiwan Combinatorics Graduate Students Conference: Best Paper Awards of DAM Students March 2009 Jan. 2010: Exchange Visitor, DIMACS center, Rutgers University, USA (under the Graduate Students Study Abroad Program sponsored by National Science Council) Aug. 2008 Jan. 2009: Lecturer, Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Aug. 2005 July 2006: Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, National Central University, Taiwan Research Interests Combinatorial Search Problems (Group Testing, Graph Search), Combinatorics, Graph Theory.
Publications Journal papers 1. H. Chang, Y-C Chiu and Y.-L. Tsai (2015) A variation of cover-free families and its applications, Journal of Computational Biology, accepted. 2. H. Chang, S.-P. Eu and P.-L. Yen (2014) Variances and determinantal profiles of orientations, Linear Algebra and its Applications 457: 209-223. (SCI, NUK, NTNU) 3. H. Chang, H.-L. Fu and C.-H. Shih (2014) Learning a hidden graph, Optimization Letters, 8:2341 2348. (SCI, NUK, NCTU) 4. H. Chang, S.-P. Eu and Y.-H. Lo (2014) Sign imbalances of snakes and valley signed permutations, Advances in Applied Mathematics 59: 26 47. (SCI, NUK, NTNU) 5. H. Chang, Y.-L. Tsai (2014) Threshold group testing with consecutive positives, Discrete Applied Mathematics 169: 68-72. (SCI, NUK) 6. H. Chang, H. L. Fu and C. H. Shih (2013) Threshold Group Testing on Inhibitor Model, Journal of Computational Biology 20(6): 464-470. (SCI, NUK, NCTU) 7. H. Chang (2013) Part-specific Sortabilities of Properties in Multi-dimensional Parameter Spaces, Discrete Mathematics 313: 326 329. (SCI, NUK) 8. H. Chang, H. L. Fu and M.-Y. Lien (2013) The Decycling Number of Outerplanar Graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (SI: Optimization in Graphs) 25(4): 536-542 (DOI 10.1007/s10878-012-9455-1). (SCI, NUK, NCTU) 9. H. Chang, Frank K. Hwang and Uriel G. Rothblum (2012) A New Approach to Solve Open-partition Problems, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 23 (1): 61-78 (DOI: 10.1007/s10878-010-9341-7). (SCI) 10. H. Chang, H.-B. Chen, H. L. Fu and C. H. Shih (2011) Reconstruction of Hidden Graphs and Its Application to Threshold Group Testing, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 22(2): 270-281 (DOI: 10.1007/s10878-010-9291-0). (SCI) 11. F.H. Chang, H. Chang, and F. K. Hwang (2011) Pooling Designs for Clone Library Screening in the Inhibitor Complex Model, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 22(2): 145-152 (DOI: 10.1007/s10878-009-9279-9). (SCI) 12. H. Chang, H.-B. Chen and H. L. Fu (2010) Identification and Classification Problems on Pooling Designs for Inhibitor Model, Journal of Computational Biology 17(7): 927-941 (DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2009.0138). (SCI) 13. H. Chang and M. Fuchs (2010) Limit Theorems for Patterns in Phylogenetic Trees, Journal of Mathematical Biology 60(4): 481-512. (SCI) 14. H. Chang and J. Guo (2006) Strongly 2-shape-sortability of Vector Partitions, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 11(4): 407-410. (SCI). Theses 1. Combinatorial Group Testing Problems on Various Models (Jun. 2010) PhD
Thesis, National Chiao Tung University. 2. On Nonblocking Three Stage Clos Networks under the Multirate-Multicast Model (Jun. 2005) Master thesis, National Chiao Tung University. Talks/Conferences 1. Dec. 13-14, 2014. Improvements on Some Error-Correcting Pooling Designs, 編 碼 相 關 理 論 及 其 應 用 研 討 會 II, Department of Applied Mathematics, I-Shou University. 2. Dec. 6-7, 2014. Interval Group Testing with Consecutive Positives, The International Mathematical Meeting and the Annual Meeting of the Taiwanese Mathematical Society (AMMS). (2014 年 數 學 學 術 研 討 會 暨 中 華 民 國 數 學 會 年 會 @NCKU) 3. May 30, 2014. Algorithmic Lovasz Local Lemma and its Applications to Group Testing, Combinatorics Seminar, Academia Sinica. 4. Mar. 21-23, 2014. A two-stage group testing for consecutive positives, 3 rd JTCC ( 第 三 屆 台 日 組 合 數 學 及 其 應 用 研 討 會 ). http://120.113.174.33/201403tjcca/ 5. Dec. 7-8, 2013. A variation of cover-free families and its applications, given at Mathematical Conference and Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Mathematical Society (2013 年 數 學 學 術 研 討 會 暨 中 華 民 國 數 學 會 年 會 @NSYSU). 6. Nov. 19-22, 2013. Threshold group testing with consecutive positives, given at The 3rd India-Taiwan Conference on Discrete Mathematics (2013 年 第 三 屆 台 印 離 散 數 學 研 討 會 ). 7. Sep. 3, 2013. Threshold group testing with consecutive positives, given at Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan. (short-term visiting: Aug. 25-Sep. 6, 2013) 8. July 1-5, 2013. Nonadaptive Algorithms for Threshold Group Testing with Inhibitors, posted at Erdos Centennial, Budapest, Hungary. 9. April 26, 2013 Determinental Profiles and Variances of Orientations, given at Combinatorics Seminar, Academic Sinica, Taiwan. ( 中 研 院 組 合 數 學 討 論 班 )
10. Dec. 7-9, 2012 Threshold Group Testing on Inhibitor Model, given at 2012 Mathematical Conference and Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Mathematical Society (2012 年 數 學 學 術 研 討 會 暨 中 華 民 國 數 學 會 年 會 ), National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. 11. Nov. 10-12, 2012 Threshold Group Testing on Inhibitor Model, given at 2012 Japan-Taiwan Conference on Combinatorics and its Applications, Nagoya University, Japan. 12. Oct. 08, 2012 Threshold Group Testing on Inhibitor Model, given in Discrete Mathematics Seminar at National Chiao Tung University. 13. March 29, 2012 Learning a Hidden Graph Motivated by Genome Sequencing, given at National Sun Yat-sen University. 14. Feb. 13-17, 2012 Invited to attend the IMA workshop Group Testing Designs, Algorithms, and Applications to Biology workshop on at the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, IMA, University of Minnesota. 15. Jan. 10, 2012 Learning a Hidden Graph Motivated by Genome Sequencing, given at 2012 Applied Mathematics Conference (2012 台 南 大 學 應 用 數 學 研 討 會 ) 16. Dec. 9-11, 2011 A Combinatorial Approach to Optimal Partition Problems, given at 2011 Mathematical Conference and Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Mathematical Society (2011 年 數 學 學 術 研 討 會 暨 中 華 民 國 數 學 會 年 會 ). 17. Aug. 29 - Sep. 2, 2011 Sortabilities of Partition Properties in Multi-parameter Spaces, posted at European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb 11), Rényi Institute, Budapest. 18. June 27-30, 2011 The Decycling Number of Outerplanar Graphs, given at 2011 Conference on Graph Theory and Combinatorics & Sixth Cross-strait Conference on Graph Theory and Combinatorics. 19. Dec. 10-12, 2010 Learning a Hidden Graph Motivated by Genome Sequencing, given at Mathematical Conference and Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Mathematical Society ( 數 學 學 術 研 討 會 暨 中 華 民 國 數 學 會 年 會 ). 20. Oct. 25-29, 2010 Identification and Classification Problems on Pooling Designs for Inhibitor
Complex Model, given at Search Methodologies II, ZiF Cooperation Group Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany. 21. Combinatorial Group Testing Problems on Various Models, given at Taiwan Combinatorics Graduate Students Conference ( 組 合 數 學 新 苗 研 討 會 ), 2010. 22. Combinatorial Group Testing, given at DIMACS Seminar and at Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Seminar, 2009. 23. On Nonblocking Three Stage Clos Networks under the Multirate-Multicast Model, given at Combinatorics Conference, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, 2005.