About
Sun
is Professor, Chair, and Bernard Dunn Eminent Scholar at the Department of
Statistics, George Mason University. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford. Before joining GMU in August 2019, she was
Professor of the Department of Population and
Quantitative Health Sciences and the Director of the
Center for
Statistical Research, Computing and Collaboration (SR2c), Case
Western Reserve University. She also served as the
inaugurate ASA/ACM/AMS/IMS/MAA/SIAM Science & Technology Policy Fellow,
working as the Big Data Senior Fellow for Big Data Analytics in the
the leadership team for PDI at the USDA ARS, Office of National Programs between 9/1/2019-8/31/2020.
Honors and Awords
She is an elected
Fellow of
American Statistical Association (ASA), an elected Fellow
of
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and an elected Member
of
International Statistical Institute (ISI). She was the
2016 President of
Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS), and has been on
various committees in the ASA, IMS, CWS, ISI, and other national and
international professional panels and boards.
Her
work has been supported by awards from the NSF, NIH, NSA,DOD, DOE, VA and ASA.
Research
She has published in top statistical
and computational journals, including Annals of Statistics, Journal of
American Statistical Association, Annals of Probability, Biometrika,
Statistica Sinica, Biometrical Journal, Statistics in Medicine, JCGS
and SIAM J Sci. & Stat. Comp, and other statistical and scientific
journals. Her statistical research has included confidence bounds and multiple comparisons, biased sampling and measurement errors, mixtures, machine learning, causal Inference, crowdsourcing, EHR, text mining, bioinformatics, network analysis, imaging, longitudinal, high-dimensional and big data.
Her interdisciplinary work
has included cancer, environmental science, neuroscience,
wound care, dental, and biomaterial, in addition to
astronomy, computer science, energy, law, and agriculture.
