Summary
Jipeng Sun is a computational imaging PhD researcher (Princeton) and applied optics engineer with nine years of experience building biologically inspired vision and decision systems across academia, industry, and startups. He has led interdisciplinary projects in computational microscopy, computer-generated holography, spiking neural networks, and neural-robotics—work that spans theory, hardware, and embedded systems and recently extended to computational nano-optics with Google XR. As founder and ex-CEO of Sharing Tech Ltd., he scaled an AI-assisted education company while exploring optimal representations for human knowledge encoding and decoding. He also designed and taught a ground-up VR/AR systems course at Northwestern, demonstrating a rare ability to translate research into hands-on system-building curricula. Comfortable switching between deep research and product leadership, he blends brain-inspired AI insights with practical optics and systems engineering. Based in New Jersey, he brings a cross-cultural background from top institutions in China, Australia, and the U.S., notable for combining startup grit with rigorous lab practice.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Study, Computer Science, 6.5/7, Exchange Study, Computer Science, 6.5/7 at The University of Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, 89/100, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, 89/100 at Shandong University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Princeton University
Chinese, English, German