Provides review and/or editorial services for federal institutions, prestigious journals, national and international conferences, and workshops such as NSF review panel, Lancet – Reg Health, JAMIA, JBI, AMIA, and ACL; Served as the guest associate editor for Frontiers in AI and Frontiers in Big Data, and the publication chair for IEEE ICHI.
Research Experience
Associate Professor at the Center of Translational AI Excellence and Applications in Medicine (TEAM-AI) within McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston; Former Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics at Mayo Clinic; Involved in multiple NIH-funded projects, leading the AI and NLP efforts in an NIH R01 project focused on computational phenotyping and exploring SDoH related to mental health disorders; Serving as a site PI in an NIH R34 project aimed at identifying social media users with vaping-related negative outcomes and the intention of quitting vaping for digital interventions.
Education
PhD, Scientific Computation, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, 2014; Graduate Trainee, Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, 2008-2010; Graduate Studies, Theoretical Physical Chemistry, Beijing Normal University
Background
Research Interests: Advancing Clinical and Translational Research in multiple healthcare domains such as mental health, consumer health, and telehealth; Professional Field: Computer Science, Health Data Science, and Health Science; Background: Dr. Huang has profound expertise in the development and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Mining methods to tackle significant and challenging problems in biomedicine.
Miscellany
Looking for highly motivated Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows with strong interests in AI and Health Informatics to join his center to perform high-quality publishable research, develop innovative technological solutions, and address challenging real-world problems in healthcare.