Early life and education Huang was born in 1964 in Chiayi, Taiwan. As a teenager, he immigrated to the United States and attended high school in Avoca, New York. He earned a BS in electrical engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985 and an MS in 1989, then completed MD and PhD degrees through the Harvard–MIT Health Sciences and Technology program in 1993.
Career Huang completed his medical internship at Mercy Hospital in San Diego in 1994, before moving to the
University of Southern California to complete his ophthalmology residency in 1997. Huang completed his cornea, external diseases, and
refractive surgery fellowship at
Emory University in 1998. Following this, he worked in the
Cleveland Clinic until 2004 as an associative staff in refractive surgery, cornea, and biomedical engineering. Huang then took on a role as Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering at USC and Medical Director of the
Doheny Laser Vision Center until 2010. David Huang is a board-certified ophthalmologist and currently the Director of Research and Associate Director of the Casey Eye Institute of the
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He is also the director of the Center for Ophthalmic Optics & Lasers, a research group that works on novel OCT imaging and laser therapeutic technologies for clinical applications. He is the Wold Family Chair in Ophthalmologic Imaging and a professor of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering at the OHSU School of Medicine. Huang is an inventor and holds 44 U.S. patents in the areas of OCT,
OCT angiography, laser therapeutics,
tissue engineering, and smartphone eye screening. Huang co-founded two companies. GoCheck Kids provides smartphone apps that screen young children for potential vision and hearing problems. Unfold Therapeutics, Inc. develops laser surgical devices. == Research ==