Professor Yu Sun
Ph.D. (University of Minnesota), P.Eng.
Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano Engineering Systems
Brief Biography
Sun is an associate professor in the Dept. of Mechanical
and Industrial Engineering and is jointly appointed in the
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University
of Toronto. He was an assistant professor at Toronto between
July 2004 and June 2009.
Prior to joining the faculty of Toronto,
Sun held a Research Scientist position at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH-Zürich). He obtained a B.S.
degree in Electrical Engineering from the Dalian Univ. of
Technology (Dalian, China) in 1996, an M.S. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the Inst. of Automation, Chinese
Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China) in 1999, an M.S. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Minnesota in 2001,
and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Univ. of
Minnesota in 2003.
Sun established and directs the Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory
in 2004. Leveraging his experience in micro-nanorobotics and cleanroom micro-nanofabrication, his team has
strong expertise in (1) developing fundamental
micro-nanomanipulation techniques and intelligent micro-nanorobotic
systems; (2) designing novel micro-nano devices and developing
new micro-nanofabrication processes. The scope of his research
ranges from fundamental science, to applied biotechnology, to
emerging engineering issues with a unifying theme centered
upon development and application of novel micro/nano devices
and systems.
Sun is the Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano
Engineering Systems. He is a recipient of the MRI Innovations
Award in 2008 and Premier's Early Researcher Award for
research in "MEMS-assisted micro and nanomanipulation of biological cells and nanomaterials"
in 2006.
At the Univ. of Minnesota, he was awarded a competitive Dissertation Fellowship
in 2002.
Among the awards received by Sun during his studies in China
were a fellowship to visit Hiroshima University in Japan, Top Ten
University Student Award in Liaoning Province (highest
provincial honor), an Elite Fellowship and a Best Paper Award
from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Sun received the 2009 First Prize for
Technical Achievement in Video by the American Society for
Reproductive Medicine (ASRM),
received the Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE 2007 International
Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2007),
and was a finalist for IEEE IROS2005 Best Conference Paper
Award and for IEEE IROS2006 Best Conference Paper Award.
Papers he co-authored with his students were also nominated as
a finalist for IEEE ICMA2006 Best Student Paper Award and for
IEEE ICRA2007 Best Student Paper Award.
Sun is a Technical Editor of the IEEE Trans. Mechatronics, an Associate
Editor of the IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering,
and on the editorial board of CSME Transactions. He is a Fellow of CSME, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of ASME,
and a licensed Professional Engineer. He has served as an organizing committee
member, technical program committee member, and associate editor for eight
international conferences. He is the program chair for the 2010 IEEE Int. Conf.
on Automation Sci. and Engineering. He is a reviewer for seven U.S., Canadian,
and European funding agencies, and a referee for ~fifteen
international journals (e.g., Science, PNAS, Applied Physics Letter,
Nanotechnology, Lab Chip, Langmuir, J. of MEMS, J. of
Micromechanics and Microengineering, and several IEEE
Transactions).
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