Huan Ci is the violinist of the MILA Quartet, the inaugural graduate chamber music fellowship quartet of The Tianjin Juilliard School. Ci received his bachelor's degree at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. He holds master's degrees in Violin Performance and Chamber Music from Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute and The Tianjin Juilliard School. He was a First Prize winner of the “Thomas Cooper” International Violin Competition in China and a Third Prize Winner of the Hong Kong International Violin Competition. He has participated in Meadowmont and Texas Music Festival as well as the Baroque Music Festival at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.  

Ci's former teachers include Hong Wang, Jun Zuo, Keng-Yuen Tseng, Weigang Li, and Wei He. 

As a teacher, Ci serves worked as a guest teacher at Shanghai Tech University.