Prof. Ya'nan Sun, Sichuan University

孙亚楠，教授，四川大学

Ya'nan Sun, Professor, BoD, National Young Talent, Sichuan Tianfu Emei Plan Talent, Chengdu May 1st Labor Medal Winner, Sichuan University Advanced Individuals Young Backbone Teachers, Sichuan University “Battling Talent Program 2.0”, “Strong Foundation Program” Academic Development Executive Director. He is the deputy director of the Machine Learning and Industrial Intelligence Application Engineering Center of the Ministry of Education of China, the academic member of the National Key Laboratory of Digital Agile Design for Air Vehicles, the leader of the innovation group of Sichuan Natural Science Foundation, the associate editor of the authoritative journal of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning System.

His research interests include machine learning, neural networks, evolutionary computation and its applications in Neural Architecture Search (NAS), robust learning, continuous learning, federated learning, symbolic regression, and so on. In the past 5 years, he has published 63 papers in IEEE repertoire and CCF-A papers such as NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, etc., of which 4 papers were selected as both ESI Hot Papers (Top 0.1%) and ESI Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%), 3 papers were selected as IEEE CIS Research Frontier papers, and 2 were selected as Best/Spotlight paper of international conference, published 1 English academic monograph (Springer Press), 1 Chinese monograph (Science Press), consecutively selected by Stanford University “World's Top 2% Top Scientists” list (World's Top 2% Scientists); published 1 English academic monograph (Springer Press), 1 Chinese monograph (Science Press), consecutively selected by Stanford University “World's Top 2% Top Scientists” list (World's Top 2% Scientists). He has been continuously selected as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, and has been authorized 25 patents for inventions in the US and China, and has undertaken projects at the national, provincial and ministerial levels, as well as for Baidu and Huawei.

He has supervised many undergraduates to publish papers and give invited oral presentations in international conferences; has supervised master students to publish high level papers in CCF-A and IEEE journals as the first author; has supervised master students to win the honors of Excellent Graduates of Sichuan Province, National Scholarship, Scholarships of Intel, Tencent and other corporations, First Class Scholarship for Graduate Students of Sichuan University, Top Ten Academic Newcomers of Sichuan University, Outstanding Graduate Students of Sichuan University and so on. Graduate students and other honors. As a supervisor, he won the first place in the Neural Architecture Search Competition (CVPR23-NAS) organized by CVPR23, the first place in the Neural Architecture Search Competition (AutoML24-NAS) organized by AutoML24, the national silver medal in the Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the gold medal in Sichuan Province.