Xian-He Sun is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and director of the Scalable Computing Software Laboratory at Illinois Institute of Technology, as well as a guest faculty in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Before joining Illinois Tech, he worked at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory; the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) in NASA’s Langley Research Center; and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He also was an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) fellow at Navy Research Laboratories.
Sun is an IEEE fellow for his contributions to memory-bounded performance metrics and scalable parallel computing, with key innovations including Sun-Ni’s law and Concurrent Average Memory Access Time (Concurrent-AMAT, C-AMAT). His current research interests include parallel and distributed processing, memory and I/O systems, software systems for Big Data applications, and performance evaluation and optimization. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation and other U.S. government agencies.
Sun has published more than 250 research articles in the field of computer science and communication. He holds five patents in the United States and one in China. Sun has received numerous awards and honors for his innovations and groundbreaking work. These include most recently the Golden Core Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 2017, the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Certificate from the IEEE Computer Society in 2016, and the ACM Service Award from ACM SIG Governing Board in 2014, as well as numerous best paper awards.