Yi Sun

Yi Sun is Reader in Data Science at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science. She specializes in applied machine learning, data visualization, and computational methods for bioinformatics/cheminformatics. Her PhD research at Aston University was funded by Pfizer Central Research.

Current research includes neural networks for medical imaging, sentiment analysis using BERT models, HuBERT-based emotion recognition, and time-series analysis for astronomical data. She teaches Foundations of Data Science and Neural Networks.

Supervised eight PhD projects including bacterial colony counting using deep learning and telecom customer churn prediction. Recent publications focus on AI applications in healthcare and communications engineering.