
He Sun is an Associate Director of State Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging Science and System in China, and Director of Center for Algorithms and Learning Theory, Shenzhan Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his PhD from Fudan University in 2010, and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, UC Berkeley, University of Bristol, and University of Edinburgh. His research interests include theoretical computer science, and machine learning theory. He has written over 60 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 5 million GBP from different research foundations and industrial partners. In 2020, he was awarded an EPSRC Fellowship of 1.5 million GBP 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 .
Recent Professional Service: PC Member of STOC 2026; PC Member of ESA 2026; Area Chair of ICML (2024, 2025, 2026); Senior PC member of AAAI (2025, 2026); Keynote Speaker for COCOA 2024, PDCAT 2024, TAMC 2025
Email: hsun@siat.ac.cn