Dr. Huang received the B.Eng. degree in Electronics and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2003, the M.Eng. degree in Sensor System Signal Processing from The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 2016.

He was an Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; a Research Associate at the University of New South Wales; and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at James Cook University. Prior to joining academia, he held various industry roles, including Senior Engineer, Senior Data Scientist, Project Team Lead, and Technical Lead. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at James Cook University (JCU), Cairns, QLD, Australia, where he serves as the Head of International Partnerships at the College of Science and Engineering and as Co-Deputy Head of the JCU Centre for AI and Data Science Innovation (CADSI).

Dr. Huang has received several awards, including the Australian Postgraduate Award, the Engineering Research Award from the University of New South Wales, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (2011), the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award (2022), the IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor Recognition (in year 2024, 2025, and 2026),  two Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2026 (Editorial Contribution Award and Author Service Award), and the JCU Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2022). He currently serves as Vice Chair of the IEEE Northern Australia Section and Chair of the local MTT-S/ComSoc Chapter. He previously served as Chair of the IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group for the IEEE Northern Australia Section. He has also held leadership roles at international conferences, including General Co-Chair, Publicity Co-Chair, Workshop Co-Chair, Publication Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee Chair, Program Vice Chair, and Symposium Chair. He is an Associate Editor of Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, IEEE Access, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, and IET Communications.

• 2025 – Present Co-Deputy Head (Cairns) - Centre for AI and Data Science Innovation (CADSI)

• 2025 – Present Co-Lead (CADSI), Impact Area: Nature - Ecosystems, biodiversity, and climate systems

• 2024 – Present Deputy-Lead for JCU Research Direction 3: Build food security in adaptive tropical food systems. 

• 2025 – Present Executive Committee Member of the Agriculture Technology and Adoption Centre

• 2024 – Present College Head of International Partnerships (College of Science and Engineering)

  • XUT, SWU, AJCE, JXUST

• 2024 – Present Course Coordinator – Master of Engineering (Professional) (MEP)

• 2024 – 2025 Comprehensive Course Review Panel Member

• 2024 – 2025 Course Coordinator – Master of Engineering Management

• 2019 – Present Program Coordinator – IoT and Data Engineering (MEP)

• 2026 – Present Member of the CSE Learning and Teaching Committee and Engaging Asynchronous Learning Working Group (Since March 2026) 

• 2022 – Present Member of the Engineering Learning and Teaching Committee

• 2022 – Present Member of CSE Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Working Group 

• 2022 – Present Member of CSE Research Committee 

• 2021 – Present Member of the Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science

• 2023 – Present Member of the Centre for Tropical Biosecurity

• 2023 – 2024 Program Coordinator – Technology and Management (MEP) (past) 

• 2022 Member of CSE Teaching Committee – International Student Experience Working Group (past)

• 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 – Present 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 – Present 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 the IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Sydney, Australia.

Associate Editor

1. Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio Journal)

2. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 

3. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing

4. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society 

5. IEEE Access 

6. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - Medicine and Public Health Section 

7. IET Communications 

8. Journal of Pervasive Intelligence and Internet of Things

Special Issue Editor

1. Lead Guest Editor, Security and Privacy for Modern Wireless Communication Systems, 3rd Edition, Electronics (MDPI), leading a seven-member international editorial team. 2025–2026

2. Guest Editor, Cybersecurity Challenges in IoT-Driven Geospatial Information Systems, Kuwait Journal of Science (Elsevier). 2025–2026

3. Guest Editor, Antenna Technology for Satellite Remote Sensing Design, Optimization, and Validation, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley). 2025–2026

4. Topic Editor, Cross-Modal Learning in Medicine: Bridging Large Language Models with Medical Image Analysis, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 2024

5. Lead Guest Editor, Security and Privacy for Modern Wireless Communication Systems, 2nd Edition, Electronics (MDPI); 13 papers published and subsequently released as an edited book/reprint by MDPI in 2025. 2024–2025

6. Guest Editor, Intelligent IoT Systems: Challenges and Opportunities in Sensing, Computing, and Communications, Electronics (MDPI). 2023

7. Lead Guest Editor, Security and Privacy for Modern Wireless Communication Systems, Electronics (MDPI); subsequently published as a 308-page edited book/reprint by MDPI in 2023. 2022–2023

Topical Advisory Panel Member

• MDPI Electronics

2026

• General Co-Chair — IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP 2026), Cairns, Australia, 22–24 July 2026.

• Publicity Chair — 5th International Conference on Intelligent Science and Technology (ICIST 2026), IEEE co-sponsored, Nanjing, China, 17–19 July 2026.

• Session Chair — International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Multidisciplinary Applications (AIMDA 2026), online session on AI in Healthcare, Life Sciences and Wellbeing & AI in Education and Learning Innovation.

2025

• Workshop Co-Chair — International Workshop on Communication-efficient Edge Intelligence Networks with Secure and Privacy-preserving Distributed Generative AI (EIN-GAI), in conjunction with IEEE TrustCom 2025, Guiyang, China, 14–17 November 2025.

• Publication Co-Chair — 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2025), technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Communications Society, Tokyo, Japan, 4–7 August 2025.

2024

• Conference Committee Chair — 9th International Conference on Communication, Image and Signal Processing (CCISP 2024), Gold Coast, Australia, 13–15 November 2024.

• Program Co-Chair — 3rd International Symposium on Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ISCAI 2024), Dali, China, 22–24 November 2024.

• Financial Chair — 3rd International Conference on Frontiers of Energy and Environment Engineering (CFEEE 2024), Cairns, Australia, 3 December 2024.

2023

• Symposium Chair — 23rd IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT 2023), Wuxi, China, 20–22 October 2023.

• Vice Technical Program Co-Chair — 2nd International Symposium on Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ISCAI 2023), Shanghai, China, 13–15 October 2023.

Earlier Leadership

• Program Vice-Chair — 25th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (IEEE CSE 2022), Wuhan, China.

• Program Committee Chair — 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications (SmartGIFT 2019), Beijing, China, 21–22 December 2019.

1. October 2026 (not finalised yet) - Upcoming Talk - IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer event, Wireless Power Transmission based on Retro-reflective Beamforming - Professor Mingyu Lu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology.

2. 10 Sep 2026 - IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer event, High-Frequency Doherty Power Amplifiers: Challenges and Design Approaches - Associate Professor Vittorio Camarchia, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. 

3. 20 Aug 2026 - IEEE ComSoc VDL Talk, From Interference to Intelligence: Green, Distributed, and Learning-Native Over-the-Air Computation for Next-Generation Networks — Assoc. Prof. Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Arizona State University.

4. 12 Aug 2026 - AI, Further Developments in College Education — Prof. James Stacey Taylor, The College of New Jersey.

5. 27 Jul 2026 - IEEE MTT-S Regional Development Workshop — Prof. Anding Zhu, University College Dublin; Prof. Qiaowei Yuan, Tohoku Institute of Technology; Prof. Yang Yang, The University of Sydney; Prof. Chinmoy Saha, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology; Prof. Wenquan Che, South China University of Technology.

6. 6 Jul 2026 - Task-Oriented Communications for 6G Connected Robotics — Prof. Dejan Vukobratović, University of Novi Sad.

7. 29 Jun 2026 - 2026 IEEE WIE Day, Technology with Purpose: Innovate Responsibly, Inspire Globally, Lead with Integrity — Engr. Tooba Khan and Prof. Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry.

8. 28 Apr 2026 - Electromagnetic Radiation: Explaining How EM Radiation Leaps off a Wire without Maxwell’s Equations — Dr George Galanis, MoonBounce.

9. 16 Apr 2026 - Wireless In-Body Sensing through Genetically Engineered Bacteria — Dr Sema Dumanli, Bogazici University.

10. 23 Sep 2025 - Quasi-Optical Beamforming Techniques for Millimeter-Wave Antenna Systems in Satellite and Terrestrial Communication Networks — Dr Nelson J. G. Fonseca, IEEE Fellow.

11. 15 Aug 2025 - IEEE MTT-S DML Talk, Additive Manufacturing: Emerging Opportunities for Microwave Components — Prof. Cristiano Tomassoni, IEEE Fellow, Technical University of Munich.

12. 8 Aug 2025 - Electromagnetic Knee Imaging for Clinical Diagnosis and Monitoring — Dr Kamel Sultan, The University of Queensland.

13. 8 Aug 2025 - Microwave Tomography for Clinical Head Imaging — Dr Lei Guo, The University of Queensland.

14. 30 Jul 2025 - History Uncovered in Electromagnetics and Antennas — Dr Trevor S. Bird, University of Technology Sydney.

15. 27 Feb 2025 - IEEE Talk, Mastering Circularly Polarized Antenna Designs: Techniques, Innovations, and Applications — Dr Nasimuddin, I²R, A*STAR, Singapore.

16. 20 Aug 2024 - IEEE MTT-S DML Seminar, Applications of Phase Change Material Technology in Tunable Filters and Other Reconfigurable Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Devices — Prof. Raafat Mansour, University of Waterloo.

17. 9 Aug 2024 - RF Design for Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Communication Systems — Assoc. Prof. Jasmin Grosinger, Graz University of Technology.

18. 14 Jun 2024 - Chipless RFID Systems: Modeling, Protocols and Detection — Prof. Mohamed El-Hadidy, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences.

19. 18 Apr 2024 - Ericsson and Telstra World-First High-Speed Capacity Link to King Island — David Nicolas, Telstra.

Thesis Examination

• PhD Thesis Examiner — University of Wollongong, University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)

• Master’s Thesis Examiner — Curtin University, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant Review

• ARC Grant Reviewer — Discovery Projects, Linkage Projects, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Early Career Industry Fellowship, Mid-Career Industry Fellowship, and Future Fellowship applications; typically 2–4 applications per year.

Journal Peer Review

• Extensive peer-review service for leading IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Frontiers and other international journals.

• Selected journals include: Nature Communications; ACM Computing Surveys; IEEE Transactions on Communications; IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing; IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; IEEE Internet of Things Journal; IEEE Sensors Journal; Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; Neural Computing and Applications.

I have actively contributed to community engagement through STEM outreach, Indigenous engagement, professional society leadership, and workforce development initiatives. These activities include mentoring participants in the STEM Changemakers FNQ program, hosting First Nations Biosecurity Science trainees through a national DAFF initiative, supporting Indigenous community engagement projects through CADSI, contributing to regional biosecurity and grower-engagement activities.

2026 - Community Engagement Contributor, AI-supported Indigenous Community Consultation Initiative, Centre for AI and Data Science Innovation (CADSI), James Cook University (2026)
Engaged with Queensland Government stakeholders to explore the application of artificial intelligence and data science to improve Indigenous community consultation and engagement processes in Far North Queensland.

2026 - STEM Expert, STEM Changemakers FNQ Engagement Day, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia (2026)
Invited STEM expert providing mentoring, project ideation, and STEM career guidance to secondary school students participating in a regional STEM outreach program. 

2026 - Mentor and Trainer, First Nations Biosecurity Science Traineeship Program, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Centre for Tropical Biosecurity, James Cook University
Hosted and mentored First Nations Biosecurity Science Trainee Reagan Ptolomey, introducing artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer vision, and emerging digital technologies for biosecurity applications.

2025 - Participant and guest speaker, Indigenous Ranger Technology Training Workshop, North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA)
Participated in a drone training workshop with Indigenous ranger groups, supporting knowledge exchange on environmental monitoring and land management technologies. 

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