Professor in Computer Science
Health Innovation Professor in Carle's Illinois College of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Sun is a Health Innovation Professor at the Computer Science Department and Carle's Illinois College of Medicine at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Before UIUC, he was an associate professor in College of Computing at Georgia Tech (GT) and the co-director of the Center for Health Analytics and Informatics (CHAI) at GT. 

His research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare, including deep learning for drug discovery, clinical trial optimization, computational phenotyping, clinical predictive modeling, treatment recommendation, and health monitoring. He was recognized as one of the Top 100 AI Leaders in Drug Discovery and Advanced Healthcare by Deep Knowledge Analytics.

He completed his B.S. and M.Phil. in computer science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2002 and 2003, respectively, and his Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.

 

 

Research Interests

AI for healthcare

Related to neuroscience, his research is around machine learning on EEG signals, seizure phenotyping, automated sleep medicine and EEG report generation. 

Education

PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University

Courses Taught

CS598 - Deep learning for healthcare

Additional Campus Affiliations

Computer Science, Carle's Illinois College of Medicine

Highlighted Publications

Jing J*, Ge W*, Struck AF, Fernandes MB, Hong S, An S, Fatima S, Herlopian A, Karakis I, Halford JJ, Ng MC, Johnson EL, Appavu BL, Sarkis R, Osman G, Kaplan PW, Dhakar MB, Jayagopal LA, Sheikh Z, Taraschenko O, Schmitt S, Haider HA, Kim JA, Swisher CB, Gaspard N, Cervenka MC, Ruiz AAR, Lee JW, Tabaeizadeh MT, Gilmore EJ, Nordstrom K, Yoo JY, Holmes MG, Herman ST, Williams JA, Pathmanathan J, Nascimento FA, Fan Z, Nasiri S, Shafi MM, Cash SS, Hoch DB, Cole AJ, Rosenthal ES, Zafar S, Sun J, Westover MB. “Interrater Reliability of Expert Electroencephalographers Identifying Seizures and Rhythmic and Periodic Patterns in Electroencephalograms.”

Jing J*, Ge W*, Hong S, Fernandes MB, Lin Z, Yang C, An C, Struck AF, Herlopian A, Karakis I, Halford JJ, Ng M, Johnson EL, Appavu BL, Sarkis R, Osman G, Kaplan PK, Dhakar MB, Jayagopal LA, Sheikh Z, Taraschenko O, Schmitt S, Haider HA, Kim JA, Swisher C, Gaspard N, Cervenka MC, Ruiz AAR, Lee JW, Tabaeizadeh M, Gilmore EJ, Nordstrom K, Yoo JY, Holmes MG, Herman ST, Williams J, Pathmanathan J, Nascimento FA, Fan Z, Nasiri S, Shafi MM, Cash SS, Hoch DB, Cole Aj, Rosenthal ES, Zafar S, Sun J, Westover MB. “Development of Expert-level Classification of Seizures and Rhythmic and Periodic Patterns During EEG Interpretation.” to appear in Neurology 

 

Siddharth Biswal, Cao Xiao, Lucas Glass, M. Brandon Westover and Jimeng Sun  "Clinical Report Auto-completion."In Proceedings of WWW, 2020, 541-550

 

Siddharth Biswal, Cao Xiao, M. Brandon Westover and Jimeng Sun  "EEGtoText: Learning to Write Medical Reports from EEG Recordings."In Proceedings of MLHC, 2019, 513-531

 

 

Recent Publications

Chen, Z., Matsubara, Y., Sakurai, Y., & Sun, J. (2025). Long-Term EEG Partitioning for Seizure Onset Detection. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 39(13), 14221-14229. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i13.33557

He, H., Li, C., Ganglberger, W., Gallagher, K., Hristov, R., Ouroutzoglou, M., Sun, H., Sun, J., Westover, M. B., & Katabi, D. (2025). What radio waves tell us about sleep! Sleep, 48(1), Article zsae187. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsae187

Jiang, P., Xiao, C., Fu, T., Bhatia, P., Kass-Hout, T., Sun, J., & Han, J. (2025). Bi-level Contrastive Learning for Knowledge-Enhanced Molecule Representations. In T. Walsh, J. Shah, & Z. Kolter (Eds.), Special Track on AI Alignment (1 ed., pp. 352-360). (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; Vol. 39, No. 1). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i1.32013

Jiang, P., Xiao, C., Jiang, M., Bhatia, P., Kass-Hout, T., Sun, J., & Han, J. (2025). REASONING-ENHANCED HEALTHCARE PREDICTIONS WITH KNOWLEDGE GRAPH COMMUNITY RETRIEVAL. In 13th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2025 (pp. 14546-14591). International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR.

McDermott, M. B. A., Xu, J., Bergamaschi, T. S., Jeong, H., Lee, S. A., Oufattole, N., Rockenschaub, P., Stankeviciute, K., Steinberg, E., Sun, J., Water, R. P. V. D., Wornow, M., Wu, J., & Wu, Z. (2025). MEDS: Building Models and Tools in a Reproducible Health AI Ecosystem. In KDD 2025 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (pp. 6243-6244). (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Vol. 2). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3711896.3737608

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