Before joining UD, he was a Postdoctoral Associate (2012-2014) at MIT CSAIL (Marine Robotics) after receiving his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. From 2003 to 2005, and was a Research Assistant (Electrical Engineering) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests focus on state estimation and spatial computing for robotics and XR, including optimal sensing, calibration, localization, mapping, tracking, perception, navigation and locomotion of autonomous vehicles and mobile devices. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), and IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics (CSR), as well as the robotics flagship conferences (ICRA and IROS). Dr. Huang has received many honors and awards, including the 2015 UD Research Award (UDRF), 2015/2023 NASA DE Space Research Seed Award, 2016 NSF Research Initiation Award, 2018 Google Daydream Faculty Research Award, 2019 Google AR/VR Faculty Research Award, 2020 ARL SARA Award, 2022 Google AI Faculty Research Award, 2023 Meta Reality Labs Faculty Research Award. He was recognized among the AI 2000 Scholars (Top 100 in robotics) and World Top 2% Scientists. He was also the recipient of the ICRA 2022 Best Paper Award (Navigation), 2023 GNC Journal Best Overseas Paper Award, and the Finalists of the ICRA 2024 Best Paper Award (Robot Vision), RSS 2023 Best Student Paper Award, ICRA 2021 Best Paper Award (Robot Vision), and RSS 2009 Best Paper Award.