Biography

Dr. Huiyan Sun is from School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University. She received her BS (2011) and PhD (2018) from Jilin University. As a visiting student, she was trained in University of Georgia in USA and University of Macau during 2014-2017. She has been an associate professor in School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University since 2021. Her main research interest includes Cancer System Biology, Causal Inference and Machine Learning. She has co-authored over 30 research papers including Cancer Research、National Science Review、PLOS Computational Biology、AAAI, etc.; co-edited 1 book. She was the winner of the Rising Star Award of ACM SIGBIO CHINA in 2022.

Education

2018    Ph.D., College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China

2017    Research Assistant, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, China

2014-2016    Visiting Student, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, USA

2011    B.S., College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China

Positions

2021-            Associate Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University

2019-2021    Assistant Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University

Professional Membership

Member of Committee on Systems Biology, Chinese Society for Bioinformatics

Member of Committee on Bioinformatics, China Computer Federation

Member of Artificial Intelligence Society of Jilin Province

Awards/Honors

2022 Rising Star Award of ACM SIGBIO CHINA

2020     Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of China Federation of Commerce-National Business Science and Technology Progress Award

Professional Service

PC Member of ECML-PKDD (2022- )

PC Member of AAAI (2022- )

PC Member of IEEE BIBM (2019- 2021)

Research Interest

Cancer System Biology, Causal Inference, Machine Learning

Selected Publications

Coauthored over 30 papers in international journals, including Cancer Research、National Science Review、PLOS Computational Biology、AAAI. 1 book

1.Huiyan Sun, Yi Zhou, Michael Francis Skaro, Yiran Wu, Zexing Qu, Fenglou Mao, Suwen Zhao, Ying Xu*. (2020). Metabolic Reprogramming in Cancer is Induced to Increase Proton Production. Cancer Research, 2020, 80(5): 1143- 1155.

2.Huiyan Sun, Liang Chen, Sha Cao, Yanchun Liang, Ying Xu *. (2019). Warburg Effects in Cancer and Normal Proliferating Cells: Two Tales of the Same Name. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics,17(3).

3.Huiyan Sun, Chi Zhang, Sha Cao, Tao Sheng, Ning Dong, Ying Xu*. (2018). Fenton reactions drive nucleotide and ATP syntheses in cancer, Journal of Molecular Cell Biology,10(5):448-459.

4.Yi Zhou+, Huiyan Sun+, Ying Xu*. (2020). Metabolic reprogramming in cancer: The bridge that connects intracellular stresses and cancer behaviors. National Science Review, 7(8):1270-1273.

5.Qiang Huang, Tingyu Xia, Huiyan Sun*, Makoto Yamada*, Yi Chang. Unsupervised Nonlinear Feature Selection from High-dimensional Signed Networks. AAAI 2020.

6.Yijun Liu, Ji Sun, Huiyan Sun*, Yi Chang*. (2022). Identification of key somatic oncogenic mutation based on a confounder-free causal inference model. PLOS Computational Biology, 2022,18(9): e1010529.

7.Qiang Huang, Jundong Li, Huiyan Sun*, Yi Chang*. SemiITE: Semi-supervised Individual Treatment Effect Estimation via Disagreement-Based Co- training. ECML-PKDD 2022.

Projects

2020.1-2022.12 Personalized diagnosis and medicine guidance of cancer based on single-sample edge perturbation network, Foundation for Young Scholar, RMB 250K (RMB)