He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2002. Prior to joining Northeastern University in 2004, he was a scientist at IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies between 2001~2004. Dr. Sun was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, USAF Summer Faculty Fellowship, the first prize IDEMA Fellowship, and the Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award at Northeastern University. His research interests include novel magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, devices and subsystems. He has over 80 journal publications and has >20 patents and patent disclosures. One of his papers published in 2009 was selected as the “ten most outstanding full papers in the past decade (2001~2010) in Advanced Functional Materials”. "