Ju Sun
Chief Executive Officer, President at PureBioX
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJu Sun is a professor, AI researcher, and tech entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience bridging foundational machine learning research and real-world AI deployment. As director of GLOVEX at the University of Minnesota and an assistant professor in CSE, he advises ~20 PhD students and focuses on theoretical and computational foundations across ML, computer vision, optimization, healthcare, and physical sciences. He co-leads two startups—Deeployable AI (CEO/President) and PureBioX (R&D AI Director)—translating research into hardware- and data-efficient, trustworthy AI solutions for biomedical and robotic applications. His work is supported by major funders (NIH, NSF, DOE) and industry partners (Cisco, Microsoft, Nvidia), reflecting both academic rigor and practical impact. Trained at Columbia (PhD/MS) and NUS, he brings a rare blend of deep mathematical grounding from a Stanford postdoc and hands-on systems and industry experience dating back to Microsoft Research Asia.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New Yorkn.a., Pilot program at the Honors School, n.a., Pilot program at the Honors School at Harbin Institute of TechnologyBachelor, Computer Engineering, Maths, Bachelor, Computer Engineering, Maths at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (7)
depth-estimation3
optical-flow3
motion-blur3
action-recognition2
deep-learning2
quadratic2
optimization1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sunju/dl_focm
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
sunju/pr_plain
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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