Chang Huang holds his B.E. degree in petroleum engineering from China University of Petroleum (East China). Chang began his master program in Craft and Hawkins department of Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University in August of 2014 and started working as a teaching assistant of the well design - drilling course, for Professor Andrew Wojtanowicz. Then he started his research project on inelastic numerical modeling of wellbore behavior with Professor Babak Akbari in 2015. Right after graduation, he joined Dr. Chen’s geomechanics group within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at LSU to continue his research in petroleum-related geomechanics. His research topic is the initiation and propagation of hydraulic fracturing in porous formation. During his Ph.D. program, he has accumulated various analytical and numerical tools to solve challenging problems in rock mechanics engineering. He has co-authored four journal papers with his advisor, two of which were published in the SPE Journal. He has also been active in participating academic conferences to learn and share.