His research interests include hydrologic and hydraulic modeling (physics-based and data-driven), uncertainty quantification in the numerical modeling process, and environmental impacts of hydropower systems.

Before joining Idaho State University, he worked as a postdoc in Earth Systems Data Science at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Huang received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Hydraulic and Hydrologic Engineering) from Purdue University in 2023 and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering from Tsinghua University.

All of the students in the class are part of the Bridges to Research Careers program, which provides up to $7,000 in scholarships over four years and other support.

More on the class and the Bridges to Research Careers program can be found at www.isu.edu/news/2023-fa... and www.isu.edu/brc/.

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. If students have discovered a new phage, its complete genome will be submitted to the National Center for Biotechnology Information databases used by the medical and research communities.

Students were judged on the creativity of the name, the phage’s collection story, the phage’s shape and structure, and how fun the presentation was.

Since the sequencing costs money, only four from the class could be sequenced, and the winners were:

Bobburn - Mara Clement
Ceridwen - Itallie Jensen
Shroomer - Tayzley Neal
JayTee - Noah Thompson

Hosted by the Department of Physics and the Kiwanis Club of Pocatello, over 1,800 kids of all ages enjoyed the more than 50 interactive science exhibits this year.

A master’s student in chemistry, Will’s research focuses on transforming sulfur waste “into new materials through a process called inverse vulcanization.”

You can watch Will’s and all the 3MT talks at www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlQP....

More about Elijah's time with the SPHSP program over the summer at www.isu.edu/news/2025-fa....

While in Washington, Elijah was able to network with public health professionals, students, and organizations from across the U.S. and abroad, learn more about the research happening in the field, reconnect with his peers in the program, and more.

The experience was an extension of the 10 weeks he spent with @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Summer Public Health Scholars Program.

While he was at the conference, he also gave a lightning talk on his work with the Software Engineering and Cybersecurity Research Team at ISU.

The fellowship program, sponsored by the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, seeks to “foster and promote practices, processes, and tools to improve developer productivity and software sustainability of scientific codes.”

The research group has been working under the supervision of Taha Ahmed and Hany Yassin, associate professors of civil engineering at Australian University; Mustafa Mashal, professor of civil engineering at ISU; and Mahesh Acharya, joint appointee and affiliate faculty in civil engineering at ISU.