Dr. Huang has an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan; a master's degree in Business Administration from Rochester Institute of Technology, New York; and a doctorate in Business Computer Information Systems from the University of North Texas, where he also was a teaching fellow. Before coming to the University of the Pacific, Dr. Huang spent several years on the faculty of the School of Business at the University of Hawaii - Hilo where he also managed a student computer lab and a local area network.