Shadow Huang

Bio

Shadow Huang is an Associate Professor and Director of Master Non-Thesis Program in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at NC State. She served as the Associate Director of the Analytical Instrumentation Facility at NC State from 2018-2021. She was trained at the University of Pittsburgh (MS & PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science). Prior joining NC State in 2010, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During her tenure at NC State, Dr. Huang teaches and conducts research in the areas of mechanics of materials, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, continuum mechanics and nonlinear elasticity. Dr. Huang’s research programs are centered on understanding the structures/mechanics of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal biological tissues, and the electrochemical-mechanical interactions in lithium-ion batteries and metal-air batteries.