He earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina in 2007. His research interests include machine intelligence, knowledge representation, bioinformatics, and cognitive science. Prior to his current position, Dr. Huang was a faculty member at Benedict College, and a research scientist at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is a Full Member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (inducted 2007), and he has served as a program committee member for many international conferences (e.g., AAMAS, ODBASE, and CIT).