Scholar
He Sun
Google Scholar ID: K6-JprYAAAAJ
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sceinces
Citations & Impact
Citations
769
H-index
14
i10-index
17
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Has written over 50 papers and 1 book. Received the President's Medal of Fudan University (2004), Shanghai Outstanding PhD Thesis Award (2010), Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship (2014). Has received research grants of more than 4.5 million pounds from different research foundations and industrial partners. In 2020, awarded an EPSRC Fellowship of 1.5+ million pounds for developing advanced spectral algorithms and STAG, a C++ based open-source library for spectral graph algorithms. Invited to work at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley in 2023, participating in the program on Data Structures and Optimisation for Fast Algorithms.
Research Experience
- 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. Supervised 6 PhD students.
Education
- Received his PhD from Fudan University in 2010.
Background
- A Reader in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. His research interests include algorithmic spectral graph theory, unsupervised learning, computational geometry, and randomised algorithms.
Miscellany
- 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.
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