Presenter

Ying Sun is an associate professor of statistics at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She is at the forefront of developing advanced models and methodologies in spatio-temporal statistics, functional data analysis, and process monitoring. Her scientific research has contributed greatly to environmental statistics. Professor Sun received her PhD in statistics in 2011 from Texas A&M University and accepted a postdoctorate researcher position in the Research Network for Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Chicago and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. She worked at The Ohio State University for one year as an assistant professor of statistics before joining KAUST in 2014. Professor Sun has won numerous awards for her research, including the Section on Statistics and the Environment Early Investigator Award from the American Statistical Association and the Abdel El-Shaarawi Young Researcher Award from the International Environmetrics Society.