Welcome to Ying Miao's Home Page!

I am an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences at the University of Tsukuba in Tsukuba, Japan.

My address, phone and fax number and e-mail address are given below.

Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences
University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan

Tel & Fax: 0298-53-5009
E-mail: miao@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp

My Research Interests

My main research interests are in design theory (including combinatorial designs and experimental designs), coding theory, cryptography and their interactions.

I am interested in many types of designs, including group divisible designs, perfect Mendelsohn designs, resolvable designs, nested designs, combinatorial arrays, difference families. I am also interested in algorithmic method in design theory, including enumeration and isomorphism testing of designs. Some of my research topics in coding theory and cryptography include equidistant q-ary codes, optical orthogonal codes, t-insertion/deletion-correcting codes.

In all, I am interested in computational and algebraic methods for determining the structure and existence of combinatorial configurations, and interested in statistical method (analysis of variance) for analysing experimental designs.

Education Background

• D.S., March 1997, Mathematics, Hiroshima University, Japan.
• M.S., July 1989, Mathematics, Suzhou University, P.R.China.
• B.S., July 1985, Mathematics, Wuhan University, P.R.China.

Theses

• Construction of Block Designs with Resolvability or Nested Structure, D. Sc. Thesis, Hiroshima University, Japan, March 1997 (Supervisors: Professor S. Kageyama and Professor Y. Fujikoshi).
• On Almost Resolvable Designs with k = 5 (in Chinese), M. Sc Thesis, Suzhou University, P. R. China, June 1989 (Supervisor: Professor L. Zhu).

Employment

• Assistant Professor, April 1998 -- Present, Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, June 1997 -- March 1998, Centre Interuniversitaire en Calcul Mathematique Algebrique, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Canada.
• Research Fellow, April 1995 -- March 1997, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Japan.
• Assistant Professor, December 1991 -- December 1993, Suzhou Institute of Silk Textile Technology, P. R. China.
• Teaching-Research Associate, July 1989 -- November 1991, Suzhou Institute of Silk Textile Technology, P. R. China.

Visiting Positions

• Michigan Technological University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, March 1999.
• Hiroshima University, Faculty of School Education, Department of Mathematics, April - June, 1997.
• Hiroshima University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, January - March, 1994.

List of Publications

Monograph

1. S. Furino, Y. Miao and J. Yin, Frames and Resolvable Designs: Uses, Constructions, and Existence, The CRC Press Series on Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1996. viii+248 pp. ISBN: 0-8493-3984-7.

Papers in refereed journals

1. C. Lam and Miao, On cyclically resolvable cyclic Steiner 2-designs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 85 (1999), 194 - 207.
2. Y. Miao and S. Kageyama, Two classes of q-ary codes based on group divisible association schemes, Discrete Mathematics 195 (1999), 269 - 276.
3. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, A construction for resolvable designs and its generalizations, Graphs and Combinatorics 14 (1998), 11 - 24.
4. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, How to nest a perfect Mendelsohn design with block size three or four, Journal of Combinatorics, Information & System Sciences 23 (1998), 125 - 133.
5. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Nested designs of superblock size four, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 73 (1998), 1 - 5.
6. M. Mishima, Y. Miao, S. Kageyama and M. Jimbo, Constructions of nested directed BIB designs, The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 18 (1998), 157 - 172.
7. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Nested designs with block size five and subblock size two, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 64 (1997), 125 - 139.
8. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Note on a paper "1-Rotational designs with block size 4", Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications 20 (1997), 82 - 84.
9. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Nested directed BIB designs with block size three or four, Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics 49 (1996/97), 99 - 110.
10. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, A few results on block-colourings of designs, Hiroshima Mathematical Journal 26 (1996), 245 - 251.
11. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Some constructions of semiframes, Ars Combinatoria 43 (1996), 17 - 31.
12. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Some non-embeddable quasi-derived designs,, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A , 76 (1996), 295 - 304.
13. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, The spectrum of nested designs with block size three or four, Congressus Numerantium 114 (1996), 73 - 80.
14. Y. Miao, S. Kageyama and X. Duan, Further constructions of nested group divisible designs, Journal of the Japan Statistical Society 26 (1996), 231 - 239.
15. Y. Miao and S. Yang, Concerning the vector V(m, t), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 51 (1996), 223 - 227.
16. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Difference families with applications to resolvable designs, Hiroshima Mathematical Journal 25 (1995), 475 - 485.
17. Y. Miao, Some resolvable balanced incomplete block designs (in Chinese), Mathematica Applicata 8(1995), 116 - 118.
18. Y. Miao and L. Zhu, On resolvable BIBDs with block size five, Ars Combinatoria 39 (1995), 261 - 275.
19. Y. Miao and L. Zhu, Perfect Mendelsohn designs with block size six, Discrete Mathematics 143 (1995), 189 - 207.
20. S. Furino, M. Greig, Y. Miao and J. Yin, Resolvable BIBDs with block size 8 and index 7, Journal of Combinatorial Designs 2 (1994), 101 - 116.
21. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, A construction of resolvable designs, Utilitas Mathematica 46 (1994), 49 - 54.
22. Y. Miao, A note on a generating set for $N_\{5\}^\{\\infty\}$, The Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 15 (1994), 227 - 228.
23. Y. Miao, Existence of resolvable BIBDs with k = 5 and lambda = 4, Discrete Mathematics 128 (1994), 283 - 303.
24. Y. Miao, Some constructions and uses of double group divisible designs, Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications 10 (1994), 66 - 72.
25. J. Yin and Y. Miao, Almost resolvable BIBDs with block size 5 or 6, Ars Combinatoria 35 (1993), 303 -313.
26. Y. Miao and D. Wu, Some group divisible designs constructed from ovals (in Chinese), Journal of Textile Basic Sciences 16 (1992), 119 - 122.
27. Y. Miao and L. Zhu, Pairwise balanced designs with block sizes 5t + 1, Ars Combinatoria 32 (1991), 239 - 251.
28. Y. Miao, On the existence of almost resolvable BIBDs with block size five (in Chinese), Journal of Suzhou Institute of Silk Textile Technology 10 (1990), 64 - 71.
29. Y. Miao and L. Zhu, Existence of incomplete group divisible designs, The Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 6 (1989), 33 - 49.

Papers in refereed proceedings

1. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, On nested group divisible designs with block size three or four, in: Y. Alavi, D. R. Lick and A. Schwenk, eds., Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Algorithms, Vol II, 515 - 525, New Issue Press, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1999).
2. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Some methods of construction of rectangular PBIB designs, in: T. H. Ku, ed., Combinatorial and Graph Theory'95, Vol. 1, 186 - 198, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore (1995).

Papers accepted for publication

1. R. J. R. Abel, M. Greig, Y. Miao and L. Zhu, Resolvable BIBDs with block size 7 and index 6, Discrete Mathematics, to appear, February 2000.
2. R. Fuji-Hara, S. Kuriki, Y. Miao and S. Shinohara, Balanced nested designs and n-ary designs, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, to appear, November 1999.
3. C. Lam and Y. Miao, Cyclically resolvable cyclic Steiner triple systems of order 21 and 39, Discrete Mathematics, to appear, August 1999.
4. S. Furino, S. Kageyama, A. C. H. Ling, Y. Miao and J. Yin, Frames with block size four and index three, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, to appear, June 1999.
5. C. Lam, Y. Miao and M. Mishima, Cyclically resolvable cyclic Steiner 2-systems S(2, 4, 52), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, to appear, April 1999.
6. R. Fuji-Hara, Y. Miao and S. Shinohara, Complete sets of disjoint difference families and their applications, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, to appear, Junuary 1999.
7. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Existence of nested designs with block size five, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, to appear, May 1997.

Papers submitted for publication

1. S. Kageyama and Y. Miao, Optical orthogonal codes derived from difference triangle sets, Congressus Numerantium, April 2000.
2. Fuji-Hara and Y. Miao, Geometrical constructions for ordered orthogonal arrays and (T,M,S)-nets, Finite Fields and Their Applications, March 2000.
3. Fuji-Hara, Y. Miao, J. Wang and J. Yin, Directed B(K,1;v) with K = {4,5} and {4,6} related to codes in deletion and insertion metric, Journal of Combinatorial Designs, January 2000.
4. Fuji-Hara and Y. Miao, Optical orthogonal codes: their bounds and new optimal constructions, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, December 1999.
5. C. Lam and Y. Miao, (C oplus G, k, lambda) difference families, Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, July 1999.
6. R. J. R. Abel, M. Buratti, M. Greig and Y. Miao, Constructions for rotational near resolvable block designs, Journal of Combinatorial Designs, June 1999.
7. R. Fuji-Hara, S. Kageyama, S. Kuriki, Y. Miao and S. Shinohara, Balanced nested designs and balanced arrays, Discrete Mathematics, April 1999.

Other Professional Activities

Professional Organizations:

• Mathematical Society of Japan
• Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications, Fellow.

Professional Services:

• Organizer of the workshop "Designs, Codes, Graphs and their Links", RIMS, Kyoto University, June 27 - 30, 2000.

Referee for:

• Canadian Journal of Mathematics
• Designs, Codes and Cryptography
• Discrete Applied Mathematics
• Discrete Mathematics
• Graphs and Combinatorics
• Journal of Combinatorial Designs
• Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Other Useful Links

• The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
• The Combinatorics Net
• Japanese Center for Combinatorics and its Applications
• American Mathematical Society

Last modified: May 11, 2000