Together with Zhang Wei [zh] and Du Qinghua, they are known as "the Three giants of Solid mechanics at Tsinghua University".

In 1943, he was admitted to National Chung Cheng University, where he studied under the supervision of Cai Fangyin [zh].

[1] In September 1958, Huang was summoned to Tsinghua University for establishing the Department of Engineering Mechanics and Mathematics.

[1] In 1966, as the Cultural Revolution broke out, Huang was labeled as a "reactionary academic authority" by the Chinese Communist Party and was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works in the suburb of Nanchang, Jiangxi.

[2] In 1955, Huang married Chen Peiying (陈佩英), a classmate of Tsinghua University from Zhejiang.