He Sun
He Sun is a Reader in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from Fudan University in 2010, and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (2010-2014), UC Berkeley (2014), and University of Bristol (2015-2017), before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2017. His research interests include algorithmic spectral graph theory, unsupervised learning, computational geometry, and randomised algorithms. He has written over 50 papers and 1 book, and supervised 6 PhD students.
He received the President's Medal of Fudan University (2004), Shanghai Outstanding PhD Thesis Award (2010), Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship (2014), and has so far received research grants of more than 4.5 million pounds from different research foundations and industrial partners. In 2020, he was awarded an EPSRC Fellowship of 1.5+ million pounds for developing advanced spectral algorithms and Spectral Toolkit of Algorithms for Graphs (STAG), which is an C++ based open-source library for spectral graph algorithms; the Fellowship runs from January 2020 to May 2025 . In 2023, he was invited to work at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, participating in the program on Data Structures and Optimisation for Fast Algorithms.
Recent Professional Service: Area Chair of ICML (2024, 2025), Senior PC member of AAAI (2025)
Email: h.sun@ed.ac.uk
News: I will join the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Summer 2025, as a Professor and Director of Centre for Algorithms and Learning Theory. The Centre is currently looking for candidates for a postdoc and faculty position with internationally competitive salaries. If you're interested in joining the Centre, please contact me at hsun@siat.ac.cn.