Yi Sun
Probability and applications to machine learning and high-dimensional statistics.
Yi Sun is a researcher, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at The University of Chicago. His research is supported by NSF Grants No. DMS-1701654/2039183 and DMS-2054838.
Now he is on academic leave as of January 2023 to start a company based on novel applications of zero-knowledge proofs.
Before UChicago, he was a Simons Fellow and Ritt Assistant Professor in Department of Mathematics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT, advised by Pavel Etingof. He completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics and economics at Harvard, advised by Dennis Gaitsgory, and spent a year studying mathematics at Cambridge supported by the Churchill Scholarship.
