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D-Index
59
Citations
13360
World Ranking
3438
National Ranking
1660

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to power modeling and energy management of mobile devices
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2007 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Y. Charlie Hu is a researcher affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their primary fields of study encompass Engineering and Computer Science, with notable subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ocean Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Control and Systems Engineering.

Their recent scholarly work features a publication titled A Deep Learning Method for Ship Detection and Traffic Monitoring in an Offshore Wind Farm Area (2023), which appeared in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. This paper has garnered a number of citations since its release.

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Xintong Liu, Huiting Ji, Mingyang Zhang, Qing Yu, and Xiangming Jiao, reflecting a diverse research partnership within their fields of study.

The main research topics addressed in their work involve advanced neural network applications, underwater vehicles and communication systems, robotics and sensor-based localization, robotic path planning algorithms, robotic locomotion and control, and control and dynamics of mobile robots.

  • A Deep Learning Method for Ship Detection and Traffic Monitoring in an Offshore Wind Farm Area, 2023, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

  • Xintong Liu
  • Huiting Ji
  • Mingyang Zhang
  • Qing Yu
  • Xiangming Jiao

  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering

  • Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Robotic Locomotion and Control
  • Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots

Y. Charlie Hu has been recognized with several distinctions, including being named an IEEE Fellow in 2016 for contributions to power modeling and energy management of mobile devices. Additional honors include Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2014, as well as distinctions as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2010 and an ACM Senior Member in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Where is the energy spent inside my app?: fine grained energy accounting on smartphones with Eprof

    Abhinav Pathak;Y. Charlie Hu;Ming Zhang

  • Fine-grained power modeling for smartphones using system call tracing

    Abhinav Pathak;Y. Charlie Hu;Ming Zhang;Paramvir Bahl

  • What is keeping my phone awake?: characterizing and detecting no-sleep energy bugs in smartphone apps

    Abhinav Pathak;Abhilash Jindal;Y. Charlie Hu;Samuel P. Midkiff

  • Path planning of mobile landmarks for localization in wireless sensor networks

    Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Saumitra M. Das;Y. Charlie Hu

  • The only constant is change: incorporating time-varying network reservations in data centers

    Di Xie;Ning Ding;Y. Charlie Hu;Ramana Kompella

  • On the impact of packet spraying in data center networks

    Advait Dixit;Pawan Prakash;Y. Charlie Hu;Ramana Rao Kompella

  • Performance comparison of scalable location services for geographic ad hoc routing

    S.M. Das;H. Pucha;Y.C. Hu

  • Exploiting network proximity in peer-to-peer overlay networks

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Y. Charlie Hu;Antony Rowstron

  • The only constant is change: incorporating time-varying network reservations in data centers

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  • Bootstrapping energy debugging on smartphones: a first look at energy bugs in mobile devices

    Abhinav Pathak;Y. Charlie Hu;Ming Zhang

  • iSPY: detecting IP prefix hijacking on my own

    Zheng Zhang;Ying Zhang;Y. Charlie Hu;Z. Morley Mao

  • Deployment of mobile robots with energy and timing constraints

    Yongguo Mei;Yung-Hsiang Lu;Y.C. Hu;C.S.G. Lee

  • Topology-aware routing in structured peer-to-peer overlay networks

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Y. Charlie Hu;Antony Rowstron

  • Characterizing and modeling the impact of wireless signal strength on smartphone battery drain

    Ning Ding;Daniel Wagner;Xiaomeng Chen;Abhinav Pathak

  • Furion: Engineering High-Quality Immersive Virtual Reality on Today's Mobile Devices

    Zeqi Lai;Y. Charlie Hu;Yong Cui;Linhui Sun

  • Efficient network-coding-based opportunistic routing through cumulative coded acknowledgments

    Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Chih-Chun Wang;Y. Charlie Hu

  • Ekta: an efficient DHT substrate for distributed applications in mobile ad hoc networks

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  • Duet: cloud scale load balancing with hardware and software

    Rohan Gandhi;Hongqiang Harry Liu;Y. Charlie Hu;Guohan Lu

  • Hierarchical geographic multicast routing for wireless sensor networks

    Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Saumitra M. Das;Y. Charlie Hu;Ivan Stojmenovic

  • Kosha: A Peer-to-Peer Enhancement for the Network File System

    Ali Raza Butt;Troy A. Johnson;Yili Zheng;Y. Charlie Hu

  • Furion: Engineering High-Quality Immersive Virtual Reality on Today's Mobile Devices

    Zeqi Lai;Y. Charlie Hu;Yong Cui;Linhui Sun

  • Path Planning of Mobile Landmarks for Localization inWireless Sensor Networks

    D. Koutsonikolas;S.M. Das;Y.C. Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas Northeastern University
Samuel P. Midkiff
Samuel P. Midkiff Purdue University West Lafayette
Saumitra Mohan Das
Saumitra Mohan Das Blue Hexagon Inc.
Ming Zhang
Ming Zhang Alibaba Group (China)
Z. Morley Mao
Z. Morley Mao University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Yung-Hsiang Lu
Yung-Hsiang Lu Purdue University West Lafayette
Willy Zwaenepoel
Willy Zwaenepoel University of Sydney
Alan L. Cox
Alan L. Cox Rice University
Sonia Fahmy
Sonia Fahmy Purdue University West Lafayette
Cheng-Kok Koh
Cheng-Kok Koh Purdue University West Lafayette

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