Hao SUN

• Associate Professor with Tenure, Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China
• AI100 Innovators: Young Pioneers in AI of China, 2025
• Intelligent Computing Innovator of China, 2022
• Forbes “30 Under 30”: Science, 2018

Dr. Hao Sun is currently an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence at Renmin University of China (RUC). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University in 2014 and did his Postdoc training at MIT during 2014-2017. He was a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh (2017-2018) and Northeastern University (2018-2021) before joining RUC. 

His current research interests lie in intelligent scientific computing and its interdisciplinary applications. He has published 80 peer-reviewed articles in top-tiered journals (e.g., Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications) and top computer science conferences (e.g., ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, IJCAI, AAAI). His work has been widely cited (>6,200 Google Scholar citations, h-index = 39) and reported in various international major media over 50 times. He has been a PI or a major Co-PI for dozens of research projects, sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, U.S. National Science Foundation, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, etc. 

In recognition of his outstanding contributions, has received multiple honours and awards including Forbes “30 Under 30”: Science (2018), MIT Technology Review Intelligent Computing Innovator Award of China (2022), and AI100 Innovators: Young Pioneers in AI of China (2025).

Intelligent Scientific Computing: from Data-driven Modeling to Discovery