EDUCATION
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Laureate Institute for Brain Research 03/2015-10/2016
• Ph.D. Cognitive Science, UC San Diego 09/2009-12/2014
• M.S. Statistics, UC San Diego 09/2007-12/2008
• B.S. Mathematics, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics 09/2003-06/2007
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• Postdoctoral research: Computational Modeling of Affective Disorders and Facial Expression Analysis (paper)
Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK 2015-2016
• PhD Thesis: Inverse Optimal Control of Depressive Behavior in a Simulated Driving Task (talk slides)
Machine Perception Lab, Laboratory of Biological Dynamics & Theoretical Medicine, UCSD 2012-2014
• 3rd year PhD project: Eye-hand Coordination in a Rapid Reaching Task under Uncertainty (paper)
Machine Perception Lab, Motion Capture Lab, UCSD 2010-2012
• 2nd year PhD project: Optimal Decision-Making in a Visual Search Task (paper)
Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, UCSD 2009-2010
• Research Assistant: Optimal Decision-making in a Two-Alternative-Forced-Choice Task (paper)
Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, UCSD 2008-2009
• Student Researcher: Mathematical modeling and Data Analysis
Department of Math and Applied Math, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics 2003-2007
Projects: Water quality evaluation and prediction of the Yangtze River, Optimal Design of Mini Supermarket Network, The spread and control of AIDS, etc.
CONFERENCE POSTERS & TALKS
• Learning under uncertainty: a comparison between RW and Bayesian approach.
NIPS 2016, Barcelona, Spain. Poster presentation.
• Not Everything that Looks Like Change is a Change: Anxious Individuals Show Over-reactivity to Uncertainty in a Change Point Detection Task
2016 Symposium- Reprogramming the Brain to Health: Computational Psychiatry and Neurology, UT Dallas, April 2016. Poster presentation.
• Inverse Optimal Model of Depressive Behavior in a Simulated Driving Task
Anxiety and Depression Conference (ADAA), Philadelphia, March 2016. Invited Talk.
• Parsing Sensorimotor Dysfunction from Reward-related Abnormalities in Depression Using an Inverse Optimal Control Model
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, February 2016. Poster presentation.
• Depressed Individuals Show Altered Facial Emotion Expression During Goal-directed Behavior
Society of Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting, Chicago, October 2015. Poster presentation.
• Computational Modeling of Depressive Behavior
TDLC All Hands Meeting, UC San Diego, Feb 2015. Invited Talk.
• Inverse Optimal Control Model of Depressive Behavior
Laureate Institute of Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, October 2014. Invited Talk.
• Inverse Optimal Control Model of Driving Behavior in Depressed Individuals
Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, July 2014. Poster presentation.
• A Computational Approach to Study the Influence of Depressed Mood on Motor-Control
Society of Affective Science Inaugural Conference, Bethesda, April 2014. Poster presentation.
• The Effect of Depressed Mood on the Dynamic Modulation of Motor-control in a Simulated Driving Task
Society of Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting, San Diego, November 2013. Poster presentation.
• Target Predictability and Eye-hand Coordination in a Rapid Reaching Task
Vision Research Annual (VSS) meeting, Naples, May 2012. Poster presentation.
• Continuous Time Infomax Model of Oculomotor Control
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, February 2012. Poster presentation.
• Eye-hand Coordination in a Rapid Reaching Task
Society of Neuroscience(SfN) annual meeting, Chicago, November 2011. Poster presentation.
• The Influence of Environmental Statistics on Sensory-processing & Motor-planning in a Visual Search Task
Vision Research Annual (VSS) meeting, Naples, May 2011. Poster presentation.
• Optimal Decision-Making in a Visual-Search Task: Experiments and models
Society of Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting, San Diego, November 2010. Poster presentation.
• Optimal Decision-Making in a Visual-Search Task
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, February 2010. Poster presentation.
• Dynamical Control of Eye Movements in a Visual Search Task: Theory and Experiment
Society of Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting, Chicago, November 2009. Poster presentation.
PUBLICATIONS
• Huang H, Thompson W, and Paulus M (2017). "Computational dysfunctions in anxiety: Failure to differentiate signal from noise." Biological Psychiatry 82.6 (2017): 440-446.
• Howlett JR, Huang H, Hysek CM & Paulus M (2017). The effect of single-dose methylphenidate on the rate of error-driven learning in healthy males: a randomized controlled trial. Psychopharmacology, 1-8.
• Paulus M, Huang H, and Harlé KM (2016). Call for Pragmatic Computational Psychiatry: Integrating Computational Approaches and Risk-Prediction Modelsand Disposing of Causality, in "Computational Psychiatry: New Perspectives on Mental Illness,” A. David Redish and Joshua A. Gordon, eds. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 20, series ed. J. Lupp. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Huang H, Harlé K, Movellan J, Paulus M (2016). Using Optimal Control to Disambiguate the Effect of Depression on Sensorimotor, Motivational and Goal-Setting Functions. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167960. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167960
• Huang H & Paulus MP (2016). Learning under uncertainty: a comparison between RW and Bayesian approach. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (pp. 2730-2738).
• Huang H, Movellan J, Paulus MP & Harlé KM (2015). The Influence of Depression on Cognitive Control: Disambiguating Approach and Avoidance Tendencies. PloS one, 10(11).
• Yu AJ, Huang H (2014). Maximizing masquerading as matching in human visual search choice behavior, Decision, 1 (4): 275-287
• Huang H, Harle KM, Paulus MP, Movellan J (2014). Inverse Optimal Control Model of Driving Behavior in Depressed Individuals, Proceedings of the 36th Cognitive Science Society Conference. pp. 2387-2392.
• Zhang S, Huang H, Yu AJ (2014). Sequential Effects: A Bayesian Analysis of Prior Bias on Reaction Time and Behavioral Choice, Proceedings of the 36th Cognitive Science Society Conference.
• Park C, Plank M, Snider J, Kim S, Huang H, Gepshtein S, Coleman T, Poizner H (2014). EEG gamma band oscillations differentiate the planning of spatially directed movements of the arm versus eye: multivariate empirical mode decomposition analysis. Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, 22(5), 1083-1096.
• Ahmad S, Huang H, Yu AJ (2014). Cost-sensitive Bayesian Control Policy in Human Active Sensing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 955.
• Ahmad S, Huang H, Yu AJ (2013). Context-sensitivity in Human Active Sensing. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Talbot WA, Huang H, Movellan J (2012). Infomax Models of Oculomotor Control. Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL), 2012 IEEE International Conference on.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Modeling and Data Analysis, Instructor, UCSD Summer, Fall 2014 (100% recommendation rate)
• Modeling and Data Analysis, Teaching Assistant, UCSD Fall 2010, 2012, 2013
• Human-Computer Interaction Programming Studio, Teaching Assistant, UCSD Spring 2014
• Introduction to Statistical Analysis, Teaching Assistant, UCSD Winter 2014
• Cognitive Design Studio, Teaching Assistant, UCSD Spring 2013
• Introduction to Cognitive Science, Teaching Assistant, UCSD Spring 2010
• Natural Computation, Teaching Assistant, UCSD Winter 2010
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE/SOFTWARE
Python, R, Matlab, SPSS
HONORS & AWARD
• Travel award, NIPS 2016
• Summer Graduate Teaching Scholars (SGTS), UCSD 2014
• Dean’s Travel Fund Award, twice, UCSD 2011, 2014
• Cognitive Science Travel Fund, four times, Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
• UCLA IPAM Graduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition (Funded), 2011
• NSF Research Ethics in Research Environment fellowship, UCSD 2011-2013
• NJUE Outstanding Study & Well-Rounded & Scientific Innovation Scholarship, four times, 2004-2007
• Excellent College Student Leader, Jiangsu Province, China, 2006
• Excellent Paper Award in Social Innovation Call for Papers Competition, China, 09/2006
• First Prize in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Jiangsu Province, 09/2005
• Second Prize in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, National 09/2004
OTHER ACTIVITIES
• Oklahoma University -Tulsa Research Forum Judge 2015
• Intel ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair) Judge for Behavioral and Social Science 2014
• Volunteer as English translator for Wildlife Conservation Society 2006-2007
• Founder of College Student Business Starting Alliance (Nanjing, Jiangsu, China) 2005-2007