Huan Sun is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. She was a visiting scientist at the University of Washington in earlier 2016, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015 and a B.S. in EE from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010. Her research interests lie in data mining and machine learning, with emphasis on question answering, text mining and understanding, network analysis, and human behavior understanding. Huan was selected as MIT EECS Rising Stars in 2015, and received
the UC Regents’ Special Fellowship (2010, 2014), the CS Ph.D. Progress Award in 2014, SIGKDD Ph.D. Dissertation Runner-Up Award in 2016.