Dr. Huang is a Senior Member of IEEE and holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He also holds an M.Eng. in Sensor System Signal Processing from The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, and a B.Eng. in Electronics and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

Currently, Dr. Huang is an Electronic Systems and IoT Engineering Senior Lecturer (equivalent to an associate professor in the North American system) at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, and serves as the course coordinator for the Master of Engineering (Professional). He is also the Deputy Head of International Partnerships within the College of Science and Engineering. In addition, he has held various academic positions such as Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow, visiting scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, research associate at the University of New South Wales, and postdoctoral research fellow at James Cook University. Before academia, Dr. Huang has gained significant industry experience and held industry positions such as senior software engineer, senior data scientist, project team lead, and technical lead.

Dr. Huang has received several awards and honors, such as the Australian Postgraduate Award, the Engineering Research Award at The University of New South Wales, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award, and the Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning at James Cook University. In addition, he is a co-inventor of an international patent on MIMO systems.

Dr. Huang is a member of various professional societies, such as the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He has served in the  IEEE Northern Australia Section as Young Professionals Affinity Group Chair. He is currently the IEEE Northern Australia Section Vice Chair and the local MTT-S/COM Chapter Chair. He also serves in various capacities at international conferences as TPC chair/vice chair, program vice chair, symposium chair, local chair, and TPC member. Dr. Huang is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society, IEEE Access, and IET Communications. He is also a Topical Advisory Panel Member and guest editor of MDPI Electronics. His research interests include electronics systems, deep learning, intelligent sensing, computer vision, pattern recognition, wireless communications, and IoT security.

• 2023 – Advised Ph.D. student, ICC Lab member Umer Zia’s “IoT-Enabled Smart Farming in Queensland” project in the 2023 ComSoc Student Competition “Communications Technology Changing the World.” received an Honorary Mention.

• 2023 - Supervised my honors thesis student, William Belcher, who won this year's CN Baron Medal at CSE JCU.

• 2022 – IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award

• 2022 - Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for creating an innovative and student-focused curriculum and culture of learning that provides engineering students with job-ready skills in electronics and the Internet of Things (James Cook University)

• 2022 – Advised Ph.D. student, ICC Lab member Umer Zia’s project “IoT-Enabled Smart Farming in Queensland” in the 2022 ComSoc Student Competition “Communications Technology Changing the World.” and received an Honorary Mention.

• 2022 - First place winner for the APAC region in the IEEE ComSoc Internet for All competition.

• 2020 - Certificate of Appreciation for participation in the Workplace Learning Program from St Andrew's Catholic College, Redlynch Valley

• 2010 to 2014 - Engineering Research Award (University of New South Wales)

• 2010 to 2014 - Australian Postgraduate Award (University of New South Wales)

• 2011 - Postgraduate Research Student Support Conference Travel Grant (University of New South Wales)

• 2011 - Best Academic Paper Award, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. (University of New South Wales)

• 2007 - Golden Key International Honour Society Membership (The University of Adelaide)

• 2003 - Excellent Graduate Award (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

• 2002 - Runner-up in the 2nd University Mathematical Modelling Contest (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

• 2002 - Single Subject Prize Award (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

• Head of International Partnerships 

• Deputy Head of International Partnerships 

• Course Coordinator - M.Eng. (Overall)

• Course Coordinator - Master of Engineering Management

• Program Coordinator – M.Eng. (IoT and Data Engineering)

• Program Coordinator – M. Eng. (Technology and Management) 

• Member of Engineering Learning and Teaching Committee

• Member of Engineering Research Committee

• Member of Engineering Inclusion, Diversity, and Retention Committee

• Member of CSE Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Working Group 

• Member of CSE Research Committee – Representing early career researchers in engineering

• Member of CSE Teaching Committee – International Student Experience Working Group 

• Member of Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science

• Member of Centre for Tropical Biosecurity

• 2024 S1: CC5501: Privacy and Security in IoT (Level 5; CNS)

• 2023 S85: CC5902 - IoT Communication Systems (Online) - Coordinator Only

• 2023 S2: CC5901: Low-Power and Wide-Area loT Communications Network (Level 5; CNS)

• 2023 S2: EE3700: Communications Systems Principles (Level 3: CNS and TSV)

• 2023 S1: IoT Communications Technologies  - XUT (Online)

• 2023 S81: CC5902 - IoT Communication Systems (Online) - Coordinator Only

• 2022 S2: CC5901: Low-Power and Wide-Area loT Communications Network (Level 5; CNS)

• 2022 S2: EE3700: Communications Systems Principles (Level 3: CNS) 

• 2022 S1: IoT Technology – XUT (Online)

• 2022 S83: CC5902 - IoT Communication Systems (Online) - Coordinator Only

• 2022 S1: CC5501: Privacy and Security in IoT (Level 5; CNS)

• 2021 S85: CC5902 - IoT Communication Systems (Online) - Coordinator Only

• 2021 S81: CC5902 - IoT Communication Systems (Online) - Coordinator Only

• 2021 S2: CC5901: Low-Power and Wide-Area loT Communications Network (Level 5; CNS)

• 2021 S2: CC3910: Digital Communication Technologies (Level 3; CNS)

• 2021 S2: EE3700: Communications Systems Principles (Level 3; CNS)

• 2021 S1: CC5501: Privacy and Security in IoT (Level 5; CNS)

• 2020 S2: CC3910: Digital Communication Technologies (Level 3; CNS)

• 2020 S2: CC5901: Low-Power and Wide-Area loT Communications Network (Level 5; CNS)

• 2020 S2: EE2300: Electronics 1 (Level 2; CNS & TSV)

• 2020 S1: CC5501: Privacy and Security in IoT (Level 5; CNS) 

• IEEE Senior Member

• IEEE Communication Society Member

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Member

• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Member

• IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Member

• IEEE Sensors Council Member

• IEEE Systems Council Member

• Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia 

• 2024 - Vice Chair, IEEE Northern Australia Section

• 2024  The 3rd Robotics Competition, Committee Member, IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific) 

• 2023 The 2nd Robotics Competition, Judge Panel Member, IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific) 

• 2023  – Present  Communication Society Chapter Chair, IEEE Northern Australia Section 

• 2023 - Now IEEE Region 10 Newsletter Committee - Managing Editor

• 2022 – 2023  Young Professionals Affinity Group Chair, IEEE Northern Australia Section 

• 2022  Communication Society Chapter Vice Chair, IEEE Northern Australia Section 

• 2022  The 1st Robotics Competition, Committee Member, IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific) 

• 2021  Student Branch Councillor Cairns, IEEE Northern Australia Section (Cairns)

• 2021  Founding member of IEEE SIG on AI Empowered Internet of Vehicles.

• 2012 Conference Supporter for IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Sydney, Australia.

Associate Editor

• IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (IF 7.9)

• IEEE Access (IF 3.9)

• IET Communications Journal

Special Issue Editor

• 2024 – Guest Editor of the special issue “Cross-Modal Learning in Medicine: Bridging Large Language Models with Medical Image Analysis.” Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Guest Editors: Dr. Euijoon Ahn, Dr. Tao Huang, and Dr. Caren Han.

• 2023 - Lead Editor of the special issue "Security and Privacy for Modern Wireless Communication System," 2nd Edition in Electronics MDPI, focuses on addressing the emerging security and privacy issues for modern wireless communication networks. Guest editors Dr. Tao Huang, Dr. Shihao Yan (ECU), Prof. Guanglin Zhang (DHU), Prof. Tsz Hon Yuen (HKU), Dr. YoHan Park (KMU), Prof. Changhoon Lee (SeoulTech), Dr. Jusak Jusak (JCUS).

• 2023 – Guest Editor of the special issue “Intelligent IoT Systems: Challenges and Opportunities in Sensing, Computing, and Communications,” Electronics MDPI. Guest editors: Dr. A. S. M. Sanwar Hosen, Dr. S.M. Riazul Islam, Dr. Tao Huang.

• 2022 - Lead Editor of the special issue "Security and Privacy for Modern Wireless Communication System," in Electronics MDPI, focuses on addressing the emerging security and privacy issues for modern wireless communication networks. Guest editors Dr. Tao Huang, Dr. Shihao Yan (ECU), Prof. Guanglin Zhang (DHU), Prof. Li Sun (XJTU), Prof. Tsz Hon Yuen (HKU), Dr. YoHan Park (KMU), Prof. Changhoon Lee (SeoulTech).

Topical Advisory Panel Member

• MDPI Electronics

TPC Chair/Vice Chair

• Vice Chair  - 2023 The 2nd International Symposium on Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ISCAI 2023).

• Chair - 2019 The 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications (Smart GIFT), Beijing, 21-22 December 2019.

Local Chair

• 2019 -  The 13th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, Cairns, 1-4 October 2019.

Program Vice-Chair 

• 2022 - the 25th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)

Symposium Chair

• 2023 IEEE the 23rd International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT)

TPC Member

• 2024 International Conference on Automation Engineering and Intelligent Control (AEIC), Milan, Italy.

• 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks.

• 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (The 21st IEEE ISPA).

• 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks.

• 2023 International Symposium on Automation, Mechanical and Design Engineering (SAMDE 2023), 8-10 December in Macau, China.

• 2023 IEEE INFOCOM AidTSP: International Workshop on AI-driven Trustworthy, Secure, and Privacy-Preserving Computing.

• 2023 International Conference on Automation Engineering and Intelligent Control (AEIC), Shenzhen, China.

• 2022 Workshop for Digital-twin-assisted AI for 6G Wireless Networking, IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference.

• 2022 IEEE International Conference on Space-Air-Ground Computing (SAGC).

• 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).

• 2022 IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications; (2022 IEEE TrustCOM)

• 2022 IEEE Circuits and Systems Designs for Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things track (COINS).

• 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks.

• 2021 The 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications (Smart GIFT).

• 2021 The 20th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in computing and communications (TrustCom 2021), 18-20 August 2021, Shenyang, China.

• 2021 IEEE International Conference on Space-Air-Ground Computing (SAGC).

• 2020 IEEE International Conference on Space-Air-Ground Computing (SAGC).

• Ph.D. Thesis

• Master Thesis

• Australia Research Council Discovery Project applications

• Australia Research Council Discovery Linkage Project applications

• Australia Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award applications

• Australia Research Council Early Career Industry Fellowships applications

• Australia Research Council Mid-Career Industry Fellowships applications

• Australia Research Council Future Fellowships applications

• ACM Computing Surveys

• Cybernetics and Systems

• ELSEVIER Physical Communication

• ELSEVIER International Journal of Forecasting

• ELSEVIER Aerospace Science and Technology

• Frontiers of Energy Research

• Frontiers of Computer Science

• Frontiers in Robotics and AI

• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

• ​IEEE Transaction on Communications

• ​IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

• IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal

• IEEE Internet of Things Magazine

• IEEE Sensors Journal

• IEEE Communications Letters

• IEEE Signal Processing Letters

• IEEE Network Magazine

• IEEE Access

• MDPI Algorithms

• MDPI Applied Sciences

• MDPI Axioms

• MDPI Sensors

• MDPI Information and Communications Technology

• MDPI Electronics

• MDPI Energies

• MDPI Future Internet

• MDPI Telecom

• MDPI Mathematics

• MDPI Entropy

• Springer - Neural Computing and Applications