This is a write-up of the author's talk in the conference "Algebraic Geometry
in East Asia 2016" held at the University of Tokyo in January 2016. We give a
survey on a series of papers of the author and his collaborators Daniel
Pomerleano and Kazushi Ueda where we show how Strominger-Yau-Zaslow (SYZ)
transforms can be applied to understand the geometry of Kontsevich's
homological mirror symmetry (HMS) conjecture for certain local Calabi-Yau
manifolds.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figures; v2: minor revision, references added; to appear
in a special issue of TJM for the proceedings of "Algebraic Geometry in East
Asia 2016