Run Huang

黄润

"ruen" (/ru:n/)

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Souti Chattopadhyay. I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Fudan University (复旦大学), where I worked with Prof. Yang Chen. I was also a UCEAP visiting student at UC San Diego.
I'm interested in designing intelligent interfaces that make dense and complex information more accessible and digestible to users. My recent work has explored how peer discussions on social media can enrich academic paper reading (UIST '25) and how academic knowledge spreads across the software developer community (WWW '24). I'm always happy to chat about research or ideas, so feel free to reach out :)
I'm experienced in full-stack web development, having contributed to both frontend and backend projects during internships at Siemens and Tencent. I am currently seeking a Summer 2026 internship.
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Publications

*C: full conference paper, *E: extended abstract & short paper

[C.1] Beyond the Page: Enriching Academic Paper Reading with Social Media Discussions

Run Huang, Anna Katherine Zhao, Zeinabsadat Saghi, Sadra Sabouri, Souti Chattopadhyay

UIST 2025, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

[E.2] A Tale of Two Communities: Exploring Academic References on Stack Overflow

Run Huang, Souti Chattopadhyay

WWW 2024, ACM The Web Conference, Short Paper

[E.1] Locating CDN Edge Servers with HTTP Responses

Run Huang, Mengying Zhou, Tiancheng Guo, Yang Chen

ACM SIGCOMM 2022, Demo Session

First Place in ACM Student Research Competition

Teaching

  • CSCI 571: Web Technologies

    Fall 2024, with Prof. Marco Papa

    Hosted daily office hours and developed four projects where students built full-stack applications for web (React, Node.js) and Android

  • DSCI 510: Principles of Programming for Data Science

    Fall 2025, with Prof. Alexey Tregubov

    Designed and led weekly lab sessions on Data Science programming in Python

Miscellaneous
Find me on Splatsville,Hyrule, or Spotify when I'm off work. If it's a holiday, I'm most likely visiting a National Park or ski resort. Here's my tier ranking of the national parks and some other places I have visited so far:
S
ZionMt. Hood
A
Deer ValleyBryce CanyonGrand CanyonMt. San Jacinto
B
Crater LakeArchesYosemite
C
Cannon BeachCanyonlandsDeath ValleyJoshua Tree
F
Capitol Reef
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Aug 2025 in Los Angeles, CA
News

  • Jul 2025

    Our paper got accepted to UIST 2025. Grateful for the travel scholarship too. See yall in Busan!

  • Oct 2024

    Officially a cat dad! Meet Nemo <3

  • Aug 2023

    Started my Ph.D. at USC with an Annenberg Fellowship

Industry

  • Siemens

    Software Engineer Intern

    Worked on the 3D coordinate system for Siemens NX, a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software

  • Tencent

    Research Intern

    Contributed to a multipath transport protocol for large-scale data center networks

Awards

  • Annenberg Fellowship

    2023 - Present

    University of Southern California

  • First Place in ACM SRC

    2022

    ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication

  • Google Cloud Research Credits

    2023, 2024

    Google

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