Areas of Focus
- Global health big data research
- Chronic disease determinants research
- Personal genomics research
Work Experience
- 2022 Mar - Present, Southern University of Science and Technology, Associate Professor, Researcher, Doctoral Supervisor, Director of Emergency Management Research Center
- 2018 Jun - 2022 Feb, Peking University, Researcher, Doctoral Supervisor in Global Health
- 2015 Jun - 2018 Apr, Boston Veterans Affairs Hospital, Senior Scientist
- 2012 Jan - 2014 Aug, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Senior Bioinformatics Analyst
- 2009 Oct - 2012 Jan, NIH Framingham Heart Study, Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2007 Sep - 2009 Sep, Harvard University Massachusetts General Hospital, Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2006 Aug - 2007 Aug, Northwestern University Medical School, Senior Bioinformatics Analyst
- 2003 Aug - 2005 Jul, Duke University Medical School, Computer Programmer III
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2012 Jan - 2015 Jul, PhD in Biological Sciences: University of Cambridge
- 2005 Aug - 2006 Aug, Master in Public Health Management: University of North Carolina
- 1999 Sep - 2002 Apr, Master in Information Science: University of Michigan
- 1996 Sep - 1999 Jun, Master in Education: Beijing Sport University
- 1991 Sep - 1996 Jun, Bachelor in Preventive Medicine: Beijing Medical University
Publications
- Two Pandemics in China, One Health in Chinese, Huang J, 2022
- Arterial stiffness, genetic risk, and type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study, Wang M, Wang S, Peng H, Huang J, Wu T, Qi L, 2022
- A Next Generation Sequencing-Based Protocol for Screening of Variants of Concern in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Huang J, Liu J, Ruiyi Tian, Na Zhang, Hannah Sherman, Patrick Zhuang, Christoph Budjan, Kevin Liu, Michelle Fong, Cullen Clairmont, Minseo Jang, Xue-Jun Kong, 2022
- PAGEANT: Personal access to genome & analysis of natural traits, Huang J, Zhi-Sheng Liang, Stefano Pallotti, Daniel A. King, Zhi-Jie Zheng, Qiang Zhou, Houfeng Zheng, Francesco M. Carpi, Valerio Napolioni, 2021
- PERHAPS: Paired-End short Reads-based HAPlotyping from next-generation Sequencing data, Huang J, Pallotti S, Zhou Q, Kleber M, Xin X, King DA, Napolioni V, 2020
- The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease, Walter K, Min JL, Huang J, Crooks L, 2015
- Improved imputation of low-frequency and rare variants using the UK10K haplotype reference panel, Huang J, Howie B, McCarthy S, Memari Y, Walter K, Min JL, Danecek P, Malerba G, Trabetti E, Zheng HF; UK10K Consortium., Gambaro G, Richards JB, Durbin R, Timpson NJ, Marchini J, Soranzo N, 2015
- Genome-wide association study for circulating levels of PAI-1 provides novel insights into its regulation, Huang J, 2012
- PRIMe: a method for characterization and evaluation of pleiotropic regions from multiple genome-wide association studies, Huang J, Johnson AD, O'Donnell CJ, 2011
- Cross-disorder genomewide analysis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, Huang J, Perlis RH, Lee PH, Rush AJ, Fava M, Sachs GS, Lieberman J, Hamilton SP, Sullivan P, Sklar P, Smoller JW, 2010