Education     
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Harvard University, 2003. 
M A. in Chemistry, Harvard University, 2002.
B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 1999.

Selected Awards/Honors
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Fellow, 2005-2010.
IUPAC Young Chemist Prize, 2004.
Honor Delegates to 43^rd International Achievement Summit, 2004.   
Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, 2003-2006.
Technology Review World Top 100 Young Innovators Award, 2003.
Grand Prize Winner of Collegiate Inventors Competition, 2002.

Research Description
Dr. Huang’s research interest centers broadly on the interface of functional nanosystems and biosystems. Her research program focuses on synthesis and assembly of nanoscale materials through chemical and biological approaches, investigation of their fundamental electronic and optical properties and design of novel nanodevice concepts. Specific research areas include (1) developing programmed synthesis of nanostructures with molecular precision and assembly of them into increasingly complex architecture through genetic control of biological scaffolds; (2) investigating fundamental properties of such materials and exploring them as functional nanosystems for applications in electronics and optoelectronics; (3) developing new nanosystem-enabled technology platform that can be broadly applied to study biological process, including detection, imaging and manipulation at single or sub-cellular and molecular level.

Publications

1. Y. Huang, C.-Y. Chiang, S.-K. Lee, Y. Gao, E. l. Hu, J. De Yoreo and A. M. Belcher, “Programmable Assembly of Nanoarchitectures Using Genetically Engineered Viruses”, Nano Letters  5, 1429 (2005).

2. Y. Huang, X. Duan and C. M. Lieber “Semiconductor Nanowire for Multi-color Photonics”, Small 1, 142 (2005).

3. Y. Huang, X. Duan and C.M. Lieber, "Semiconductor Nanowires: Nanoscale Electronics and Optoelectronics," in Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, J.A. Schwarz, Ed. (Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2005).

4. Y. Huang and C. M. Lieber “Integrated Nanoscale Electronics and Optoelectronics: Exploring Nanoscale Science and Technology through Semiconductor Nanowires”, Pure and Applied Chemistry 76, 2051(2004).

5. X. Duan, Y. Huang, R. Agarwal and C. M. Lieber “Single Nanowire Injection Lasers” Nature 421, 241 (2003).

6. X. Duan, Y. Huang, Y. Cui and C. M. Lieber, "Nanowire Nanoelectronics Assembled from the Bottom-Up" in Molecular Nanoelectronics, M. A. Reed and T. Lee (Eds.) 199-227 (American Scientific Publishers, 2003).

7. X. Duan, Y. Huang and C. M. Lieber, "Nanowire Nanocircuits," in 2003 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, E. Geller, J. Weil, D. Blumel, A. Rappaport, (Eds.), 272-276 (McGraw Hill, 2003).

8. Y. Cui, X. Duan, Y. Huang and C. M. Lieber, "Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology" in Nanowires and Nanobelts " Materials, Properties and Devices, Z.L. Wang, ed. 3-68 (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003).

9. Y. Huang, X. Duan, Y. Cui, and C. M. Lieber "Gallium Nitride Nanowire Nanodevices," Nano Letters, 2, 101(2002).

10. X. Duan, Y. Huang, and C. M. Lieber "Nonvolatile Memory and Programmable Logic from Molecule-Gated Nanowires", Nano Letters, 2, 487(2002).

11. Y. Huang, X. Duan, Y. Cui, L. Lauhon, K. Kim, and C. M. Lieber, "Logic Gates and Computation from Assembled Nanowire Building Blocks” Science, 294, 1313 (2001).  (Highlighted in “Breakthrough of the year (2001)” by Science Magazine).

12. Y. Huang, X. Duan, Q. Wei, and C. M. Lieber, “Directed Assembly of One Dimensional Nanostructures into Functional Networks”, Science 291, 630 (2001). (Highlighted in “Breakthrough of the year (2001)” by Science Magazine).

13. X. Duan, Y, Huang, Y. Cui, J. Wang, and C. M. Lieber, “Indium Phosphide Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices”, Nature 409, 66, (2001).