Yi Huang

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Min H. Kao Department of EECS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where I am part of the Foundational AI Cluster. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I received my Ph.D. in September 2025 under the supervision of Professor Qiangfei Xia. I also hold both a B.E. and an M.S. from the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Further details are available in my CV.

Positions

August 2026 – Present, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
September 2025 – July 2026, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Education

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2025
MS / BE in Control Science and Engineering / System Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2019 / 2016

Honors and Awards

Ting-wei Tang Dissertation Prize, 2026
ECE David H. Navon Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022
ECE Graduate Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2020

Teaching and Advising

ECE 455/555 Embedded Systems, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Fall 2026
Mentor for REU students, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Summer 2022/2023 (Project: FPGA programming)
Mentor for Senior Design Project, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Remote), Fall 2018 (Project: ML with non-volatile memory)

Journal/Conference Reviewer

Science Advances
Nature Communications
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Advanced Functional Materials
Knowledge-Based Systems
Information Sciences
Neural Networks
Cognitive Computation
Scientific Reports
2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems