Alice S. Huang is the current President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Senior Faculty Associate in Biology at the California Institute of Technology. She was previously professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and subsequently dean for Science at New York University. She currently sits on the Boards of Johns Hopkins University, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences of the Claremont Colleges, Health Effects Institute in Boston, MA, Waksman Foundation for Microbiology, Eli and Edythe Broad Medical Research Program on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and Public Agenda. She consults on science policy for government agencies in Singapore, Taiwan, and China as well as for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Aeronautics & Space Agency.

Huang is a distinguished virologist. The American Society for Microbiology gave her the Eli Lilly Award in Immunology and Microbiology (1977) and the Alice C. Evans Award (2001). She is a past-president of that society. She has honorary doctorates of science from Wheaton College, Mt. Holyoke College, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Her past board service includes the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Keystone Center, University of Massachusetts, and Shady Hill School. She is a fellow of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan (1991), American Women in Science (1998), the Academy of Microbiology, and the AAAS (1999).

Her academic career began as assistant professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School in 1971. During that time she also served as coordinator of the Virology Unit at the Channing Laboratories of Infectious Diseases at Boston City Hospital and director of the training program funded by the National Cancer Institute on "Virus-Host Interactions in Cancer." She became full professor in 1979, as well as the director of the Laboratories of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital in Boston.

Born in China, Huang emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. She grew up attending Episcopal girl's schools on the East Coast and Wellesley College. She received B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees (microbiology, 1966) from Johns Hopkins University.

As an administrator, Huang is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research, organization of educational institutions, and in policy issues related to science and technology. Since coming to Caltech, where her husband David Baltimore is the president, Huang has joined the Pacific Council on International Policy and supports many community organizations.

Huang served on the CCST Council from 2004-2009.