His research interests are in the areas of computer systems and architecture, including cloud computing, big data computing, high-performance computing and storage systems. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2014, NVIDIA Academic Partnership Award in 2011, IBM Real Time Innovation Faculty Award in 2008, and School of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2014. His projects won the Best Poster Award at PACT'11, ACM Undergraduate Student Research Competition at SC'12, and a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at SC'11. Dr. Huang completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and received his B.S. in the Department of Computer Science at Wuhan University. http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~howie/