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.
He spends spare time on poems and essays, and some of his works can be found under Isle of Wight.
Recent Professional Service: Area Chair of ICML (2024, 2025), Senior PC member of AAAI (2025)
Postal Address
Room 5.03
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AB
United Kingdom
Email: h.sun@ed.ac.uk