He Sun

He Sun serves as a Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, holding this position since 2017 after appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (2010-2014), UC Berkeley (2014), and University of Bristol (2015-2017).

His educational background includes:

• PhD from Fudan University (2010)

His research spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, and theoretical computer science with specialized expertise in algorithmic spectral graph theory, unsupervised learning, computational geometry, and randomized algorithms. He is the principal developer of the open-source Spectral Toolkit of Algorithms for Graphs (STAG), a C++ library for spectral graph algorithms funded through his EPSRC Fellowship.

His distinguished awards include:

• President's Medal of Fudan University (2004)
• Shanghai Outstanding PhD Thesis Award (2010)
• Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship (2014)
• EPSRC Fellowship (2020)

He has supervised 6 PhD students and secured over £4.5 million in research funding from diverse foundations and industrial partners, including a £1.5M+ EPSRC Fellowship for spectral algorithm development (2020-2025). As a member of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, he actively contributes to professional service including Area Chair roles for ICML (2024, 2025) and Senior PC membership for AAAI (2025, 2026). In Summer 2025, he will assume a Professorship and Directorship of the Centre for Algorithms and Learning Theory at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.