Liying (Lily) Huang was in the first class to enter university after the Cultural Revolution in China. At age 20, her B.S. math thesis on a new statistical modeling regarding optimized computational efficiency was selected for publication in the China National Education Journal.

During her career in China, Liying established a computer training center to train and mentor young students and prepared them for the national programming competitions. She also built computerized financial and accounting systems for both government and business. She developed a computerized data system for weather forecasting with an optimized data model.

After emigrating to the US in the 1990s, Lily's first job was involved in a Java development Kit (JDK) project with Sun Micro for a short period of time. With the advent of personal computing and the internet, cybersecurity became an important field. Liying decided to join Trend Micro, a leading global cybersecurity company and she has devoted her career to cybersecurity since then. During her tenure with Trend Micro, Lily led the R&D team to develop the first antivirus software in the market for IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino which supports all platforms including IBM AS400 and IBM mainframe S390. She led the teams to develop an intelligent troubleshooting platform. Throughout her career, Lily and her teams have contributed significantly to the company's product quality and customer experiences. Lily has demonstrated her strong leadership and collaboration skills. She has been recognized by Trend Micro with the Most Valuable Player award three times and retired as Senior Director of core engineering at Trend Micro.

Liying currently manages a private investment LLC and has been an active member of the IST Council since 2012, regularly supporting IST initiatives.