Assistant Professor

Biography

Dr. He Sun is an assistant professor in the College of Future Technology, Peking University, China. Prior to starting at Peking University, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 2019 and his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Mechanics and Economics from Peking University in 2014.

His research primarily focuses on computational imaging, which tightly integrates optics, control, signal processing and machine learning to push the boundary of scientific imaging. His past work has contributed to multiple real science missions, including the Event Horizon Telescope for black hole interferometric imaging.

Education

n 2010-2014 B.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics and B.S. in Economics, Peking University

n 2014-2019 Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University (Advisor: N. Jeremy Kasdin)

Experience.

n 2018. 6 – 2018.9  Research Intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA.

n 2019. 9 – 2022.3  Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

n 2022. 4 – now Assistant Professor, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Representative publications

1. He Sun*, Katherine L. Bouman. “Deep probabilistic imaging: uncertainty quantification and multi-modal solution characterization for computational imaging.” AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021.

2. He Sun*, Adrian V. Dalca, Katherine L. Bouman. “Learning a probabilistic strategy for computational imaging sensor selection.” International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2020

3. He Sun*, Alexei Goun, Susan Redmond, Michael Galvin, Tyler Groff, Maxime Rizzo. “High-Contrast Integral Field Spectrograph (HCIFS): multi-spectral wavefront control and reduced-dimensional system identification.” Optics Express, 2020, 28 (15)

4. He Sun*, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Robert Vanderbei. “Efficient wavefront sensing for space-based adaptive optics.” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 2020, 6 (1)

5. He Sun*, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Robert Vanderbei. “Identification and adaptive control of a high-contrast focal plane wavefront correction system.” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 2018, 4 (4)