Dennis Sun
Associate Professor
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Sun is an Associate Professor of Statistics at Stanford and a Staff Data Scientist on Google Search Ads, blending a decade-plus of academic research and industry impact. He designs and teaches data science curricula while advancing ML model evaluation for ad auctions and building productivity libraries like Google’s Meterstick. Trained in music, mathematics, electrical engineering and statistics (Harvard AB; Stanford MS/PhD), he brings an unusually interdisciplinary lens to statistical education and applied ML. Dennis has launched new data science programs and courses at multiple universities and continues to supervise student research while shipping production-focused analytics tools. His work sits at the intersection of pedagogy, reproducible software, and large-scale experimentation, making him equally at home in the classroom, lab, and production codebase.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A.B., Music and Mathematics, A.B., Music and Mathematics at Harvard UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, ChineseGithub contributions (1)
dlsun/ohms
Oct 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:146 commits in 1 year 9 months
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