Summary
Lijun Sun is an Associate Professor at McGill University with nine years of academic experience specializing in multi-agent coordination, distributed decision making, swarm intelligence, and evolutionary computation. His work bridges urban computing and transportation modeling, informed by a PhD in Transportation from NUS and formative positions at MIT Media Lab and the Singapore-ETH Centre. He leads the SMART Lab, applying agent-based and data-driven methods to problems in urban dynamics, scalable cooperation, and mobility systems. Lijun’s research uniquely combines theoretical multi-agent algorithms with practical urban applications, from mobility planning to controlling contagion in social networks. A William Dawson Scholar, he is comfortable moving between optimization, complex systems, and real-world deployments that test collective behavior at scale. Based in Montreal, he brings a cross-disciplinary background in civil engineering and computational methods to design resilient, adaptive systems for cities.
8 years of coding experience