Brice Huang

Faculty host: Andrea Montanari

Affiliated with: Department of Statistics, School of Humanities and Sciences

Brice Huang earned a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2025. His research studies spin glasses, which are disordered systems arising in probability and physics that model optimization, sampling, and inference problems from statistics and machine learning. His graduate work includes an exact characterization of how well algorithms can optimize a broad class of random objectives and a proof of Krauth and Mézard's conjecture on the storage capacity of the binary perceptron, a model of a neural network. At Stanford, he will continue this work with the goal of understanding the fundamental computational and information–theoretic limits of statistical problems.