• PhD, Computer Science, University of Texas-Austin
• MA, Computer Science, University of Texas-Austin
• MS, Mathematics, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
• BS, Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Dr. Stephen Huang is a Computer Science professor at the University of Houston. He has over 40 years of experience in Computer Science education, research, and administration. His research focuses on Cybersecurity, Intrusion Detection, Cyber Behavior Analytics, and Algorithms. His research and educational projects have been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, and the National Security Agency. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers.

Dr. Huang has served as the department's Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Chair, and Chair. Additionally, he has served as UH's primary point of contact, leading the efforts for the NSA's designation of UH as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (NCAE-C-R). He was also a National Research Council-NASA Senior Research Associate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, from 1989 to 1990.

• IEEE Life Senior Member
• National Research Council-NASA Senior Research Associate

• Zechun Cao, Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, "Host-Based Intrusion Detection: A Behavioral Approach Using Graph Model". In: Abraham, A., Hong, TP., Kotecha, K., Ma, K., Manghirmalani Mishra, P., Gandhi, N. (eds) Hybrid Intelligent Systems. HIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 647. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27409-1_12.
• Ayman El Aassal and Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, “Learning Discriminative Representations for Malware Family Classification,” 18th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS), December 14-15, 2022, Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27409-1_121.
• Yang Lu, Jordan Yu, Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, "Illuminating the Black Box: A Psychometric Investigation into the Multifaceted Nature of Large Language Models," arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14202, 2023. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.14202.
• Yuan Tian, Zechun Cao, and Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, "Detecting VPN Traffic in Real-Time with Active Probing," the International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), October 24-26, 2024, Bertinoro, Italy, DOI: https://10.1109/NCA61908.2024.00030.
• Yang Lu and Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, "Assessing the Persona Performance of Large Language Models: A Psychometric Evaluation Approach," presented at a Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Workshop on the Challenges and Opportunities of LLM-Based Synthetic Personae and Data in HCI, May 11-16, 2024.