Dennis Sun

Dennis Sun is the Director of the Program in Data Science and Associate Professor (Teaching) of Statistics at Stanford University's School of Humanities and Sciences. He also serves as a Staff Data Scientist (Research) at Google, Inc. His academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Statistics (2015) and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an A.B. in Music and Mathematics (summa cum laude) from Harvard College (2010).

• Research interests focus on making statistics and data science accessible through education innovation and software development
• Collaborates with researchers in music and public health
• Previous roles include Associate Professor of Statistics and Affiliate Professor of Computer Science at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

His work spans statistics education, audio signal processing, and public health applications, supported by grants from DARPA, NIH, and NSF. He has received prestigious awards including Stanford's Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and multiple best student paper awards at ICASSP and Interspeech.