Dr. Ying Sun
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi ArabiaYing Sun is an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. She joined KAUST in June 2014 after one-year service as an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the Ohio State University, USA. At KAUST, she leads a multidisciplinary research group on environmental statistics, dedicated to developing statistical models and methods for space-time data to solve important environmental problems. Prof. Sun received her Ph.D. degree in Statistics from Texas A&M University in 2011, and was a postdoctorate researcher in the research network of Statistics in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (STATMOS), affiliated with the University of Chicago and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI). She demonstrated excellence in research and teaching, published research papers in top statistical journals as well as subject matter journals, won multiple best paper awards from the American Statistical Association and the Transportation Research Board National Academies. Her research interests include spatio-temporal statistics with environmental applications, computational methods for large datasets, uncertainty quantification and visualization, functional data analysis, robust statistics, statistics of extremes.