Felix C. Huang graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at U.C. Berkeley in 1997. He worked as a science teacher with the Teach for America program from 1997 to 1999 in East Palo Alto, CA. He is currently a PhD student in a combined Mechanical/Industrial Engineering program and has been a research assistant in the Haptix Laboratory at the University of Michigan since 2000.