Ling Huang was born in China in 1989 and received his B.S. (2012) in Chemistry from Dalian University of Technology (DUT). Afterwards, he joined Jianzhang Zhao’s group (DUT) as a Ph.D candidate (Organic Chemistry). He began to work on designing functional organic dyes and researching photophysics. He joined Gang Han’s lab at University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2014. Currently, his research focuses on near infrared light (NIR) TTA upconversion fluorescence and photodynamic therapy.