Sun, Yanchun is an associate professor in School of Computer Science at Peking University. She is the associate chair of the department of Computer Science and Engineering. She holds a Master degree and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University. In 1999, Dr. Yanchun Sun became a faculty of the department of computer Science at Peking University. From September 2005 to September 2006, professor Sun has been a visiting scholar at the department of computer science at Yale University.
Professor Sun has a broad interest in computer software and theory. Her research interests include software engineering, service computing, software architecture, big data analysis, and intelligent education technologies etc.
Professor Sun has taken part in or been responsible for many national projects, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Grand Fundamental Research (973) Program of China and the National Key Research and Development Program of China etc. She has published more than 90 papers in well-known academic journals and conferences such as ICSE, FSE, ICWS, and JSS etc., and has edited two textbooks and translated three books. As the first inventor, Professor Sun applied for sixteen Chinese invention patents and has eleven authorizations.
Professor Sun developed and teaches the PKU course Software Project Management and Solutions Engineering for graduates, and she teaches the PKU course Software Engineering and Software Engineering Practice for undergraduates.
Professor Sun received the Outstanding Teacher Award in Computer Science for National Universities in 2021. She is the Knowledge Area Editor for the Software Design Knowledge Area of IEEE SWEBOK Version 3. She has served as PC Co-Chair of IEEE SSE 2024, Chair of Women in Services Computing (WISC) Committee in IEEE Technical Community on Services Computing (TCSVC), and the Technical Program Committee of various international conferences including ICWS, COMPSAC, APSEC, SEKE and SCC etc. She is an IEEE member, an IEEE Computer Society member, an ACM member, and a distinguished member of China Computer Federation (CCF). She is a member of CCF Software Engineering Committee, a member of CCF Service Computing Committee, and a member of CCF Education Committee.
