Huaxiong Huang is an applied mathematician, and his research areas are fluid mechanics, scientific computing and data analysis with applications in industry, finance, environmental science and biomedicine. His research group’s recent focus is on retinal images-based physiology informed modeling and analysis.  

At DKU, he teaches mathematics and directs the Zuchongzhi Center, a research center with members from mathematics, computer science, biology, physics, and other disciplines in natural and social sciences. 

He received his BSc in mathematics from Fudan University and PhD from the Institute of Applied Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. He was an NSERC postdoc fellow, a JSPS visiting fellow at the University of Tokyo, a three-time Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury, and a visiting Professor at the University of Paris VI. He was a recipient of the Canadian Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society-Fields Institute Industrial Mathematics Prize, and a lifetime fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences.