Xuhui Huang obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2006 and did his postdoctoral research at Stanford University. He joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as an assistant professor in 2010 and was promoted to tenured associate professor in 2015. Between 2017 to 2019, he was named the Padma Harilela Associate Professor of Science. In July 2019, he was promoted to full professor. In September of 2021, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as the Hirschfelder Chair in Theoretical Chemistry and the Director of the Theoretical Chemistry Institute. The research in Xuhui’s group is at the interface of chemistry and biophysics. His group has been among the pioneers in elucidating protein dynamics using new computational chemistry and machine learning tools. Xuhui has received a number of awards, with the most recent one being the Pople Medal from Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical & Computational Chemists in 2021.
A word from Clark Landis, Chair of Chemistry:
Professor Huang was recruited as the Hirschfelder Chair of Theoretical Chemistry. As a leader in this field, Xuhui possesses the skills and insights that will enable him to explore biological function at many levels and enable the department to rebuild its reputation of excellence in the area of theoretical chemistry.