She co-directs the SALT lab, focusing on social computing systems research. Before joining iSchool, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Yun Huang received both her master's degree and doctorate from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at UC Irvine . She earned her bachelor's degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.