Ziyi Huang, a 2023 doctoral graduate of Columbia University’s Department of Electrical Engineering advised by Professor Christine P Hendon, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University. Huang also received the prestigious Cheung- Kong Innovation Fellowship awarded by Columbia Engineering School in Fall 2021.
Huang now teaches in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, part of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Her research specializes in trustworthy artificial intelligence for health, risk-aware decision making and agentic AI.
“I am eager to collaborate with interdisciplinary researchers in mathematics, computer science and clinical practice to address challenges related to trustworthiness and to promote transparency across broader AI applications in health care,” Huang said in the ASU news story. “I stay in this field because it allows me to translate machine learning into clinical impact, creating robust, interpretable and fair frameworks that improve patient safety and advance precision medicine.”
At ASU, she will teach courses on trustworthy AI, risk-aware decision making and machine learning. She said she looks forward to sharing her expertise with students eager to learn about responsible AI systems.
Huang earned her bachelor’s degree in information science from the University of Science and Technology of China before completing her PhD at Columbia EE.
