Dr. Huang's group focuses on software engineering and human factors, including user cognition, sustainability for open source software, AI for software engineering, and software engineering education. Broadly, she solves problems to understand and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of software engineering activities. Her work spans software, hardware, medical imaging, eye tracking, and mobile sensing, collaborating with researchers from Psychology and Neuroscience, and research labs in CS industry. Her group also works on social aspects in software engineering community.

Dr. Yu Huang received her PhD in Computer Science from University of Michigan in 2021. She received her MS in Computer Engineering from University of Virginia in 2015 and her BS in Aerospace Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in China in 2011.