Rate My Professor Shengxi Huang

Shengxi Huang is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, with additional appointments in the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering and the Department of Bioengineering. She also serves as a member of the Ken Kennedy Institute. Huang earned her bachelor’s degree with the highest honors in micro and nano electronics from Tsinghua University in China in 2011. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013 and 2017, respectively, under the supervision of Professors Mildred Dresselhaus and Jing Kong. Following her doctorate, she conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Professors Tony Heinz and Jonathan Fan.

Before joining Rice University, Huang was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Materials Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on light-matter interactions in quantum materials and nanostructures, including optical spectroscopy of low-dimensional materials and Weyl semimetals, as well as applications in optoelectronics, biochemical sensing, and quantum sensing. She leads the SCOPE Lab at Rice. Huang has received numerous honors, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2020, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2022, the Johnson & Johnson STEM2D Scholar’s Award in 2019, the Kavli Fellowship for Nanoscience, the Jin Au Kong Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis at MIT in 2017, and the Ginzton Fellowship at Stanford University. She previously received the Dean’s Faculty Research Award and other recognitions at Penn State.