Yu Sun
Assistant Professor at The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolYu Sun is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University with nine years of experience bridging academic research and applied engineering. He completed a postdoc at Caltech after earning a PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science and Data Analysis from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BS in Electronics from Sichuan University. His background spans low-level computer vision research (including a research internship at NVIDIA) and practical NLP work from earlier industry internships. Yu combines deep theoretical training with hands-on system-building, moving fluidly between lab prototypes and production-aware research. Based in Baltimore, he brings a track record of mentoring students and publishing rigorous work while maintaining industry ties that accelerate technology transfer. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who pursues foundational problems but constantly asks how results can impact real-world systems.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Electronics and Information Electronics and Information, Bachelor of Electronics and Information Electronics and Information at Sichuan UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
markdown10
gitpod10
github-pages10
jekyll10
wavefront4
raycasting4
abaqus3
recovery3
measurements3
natural-language-processing2
machine-learning2
nlp2
classification2
latex1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sunyumark/ScaDec-deep-learning-diffractive-tomography
May 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
wustl-cig/DeCAF
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 11 pushes in 9 months
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