Ju Sun (孙举)

4-192 Keller Hall

200 Union Street SE

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Data Science Graduate Faculty
Institute for Health Informatics (Affiliate Faculty)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Research Interests: machine learning, data sciences, and numerical optimization, computer vision, signal/image processing, and computational imaging, healthcare. See my [CV].

Contact

• Email: jusun@umn.edu \ \ sunjunus@gmail.com
• Office: 5-225E, KHKH
• Phone: 612-301-2729
• Webpage: http://sunju.org
• Office Hour: 4 – 6pm Thur (2020 Spring)

What’s new

Upcoming

Past

• Grant approval: DOE: FAIR Framework for Physics‐Inspired Artificial Intelligence in High Energy Physics (Co-PI, Aug 10, 2020)
• Grant approval: NSF 2038403: CPS: Medium: Smart Tracking Systems for Safe and Smooth Interactions Between Scooters and Road Vehicles (Co-PI, Aug 04, 2020)
• Service: To be an Area chair for AISTATS 2021 (Jul 18, 2020)
• Talk: SIAM Conference on Imaging Science Virtual Conference (Jul 6–17, 2020) [Slides]
• Talk: SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science at Cincinnati, Ohio (postponed for the BEERvirus, 2020)
• Paper release: our new paper Inverse Problems, Deep Learning, and Symmetry Breaking is on arXiv. We show how symmetries in nonlinear inverse problems can cause a significant difficulty for the end-to-end deep learning approach, and how to address it by breaking the symmetry (Mar 20, 2020).
• Talk: Workshop on Numerical Algebra in High-Dimensional Data Analysis at Tianyuan Mathematical Center in Southeast China (TMSE), Xiamen, China (Dec 27–29, 2019)
• Talk: INFORMS Annual Meeting 2019 at Seattle (Oct 20–23, 2019)
• Join CS&E @ UMN as an assistant professor! (Jul 01, 2019)

Archive

• Stanford years (2016 – 2019)
• Columbia years (2011 – 2016)