Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

 

Dr. Huang is a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with multiple appointments and affiliations in the Perelman School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in August, 2021. Dr. Huang was a postdoctoral fellow from August 2021 to June 2024 at Stanford University working with professors James Zou and Thomas Montine.

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Dr. Huang's research focusses on AI/ML innovation and its application to medicine, with topics including vision-language foundation model for pathology (Nature Medicine '23 cover article), human-AI collaboration (Nature BME '24 cover article), neurodegenerative diseases (Nature Communications '23), optimizing LLMs (Nature '25). His research has drawn wide public attention, including from the New York Times, Stanford Medicine, and Stanford Scope, and has resulted in translational innovations. In 2022, Dr. Huang, along with his postdoctoral mentors, co-founded a human-in-the-loop AI platform for digital pathology.