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Prof. Huang is currently the Hirschfelder Chair in Theoretical Chemistry in Department of Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), and he also serves as Director of Theoretical Chemistry Institute at UW-Madison. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2006 with Prof. Bruce Berne. He did his postdoc research at Stanford University with Profs. Michael Levitt (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) and Vijay Pande, He joined Hong Kong University of Scientific and Technology (HKUST) as an assistant professor in 2010, and received an early promotion to the tenured Associated Professor at Jan 2015. Between 2017 and 2019, he was the Padma Harilela Associate Professor of Science at HKUST. Between July 2019 and Aug 2021, he was the full professor at Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at HKUST. He Joined Department of Chemistry at UW-Madison from Sept 2021. His research is focused on developing and applying statistical mechanics based algorithms to model functional conformational changes of complex biological systems. He has published over 100 papers in top journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, and JACS. Prof. Huang has also received a series of awards including the American Chemical Society OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2014); School Research Award, HKUST School of Science (2013), and Hong Kong Research Grant Council Early Career Award (2013); American Chemical Society CCG Excellence Award (2006); and Pople Medal by Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (2021). He was elected as a founding member of Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong, and serves as its Vice President between 2018 and 2021.