Lichao Sun
Incoming Adjunct Professor at Lehigh University
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolLichao Sun is an assistant professor in computer science at Lehigh University and incoming adjunct professor at Harvard Medical School/Mass General, specializing in trustworthy and medical AI with a focus on generative models and LLMs. He completed his Ph.D. under Prof. Philip S. Yu at UIC and directs the LAIR lab, bridging rigorous research with clinical collaboration from his adjunct role at Mayo Clinic. With seven years of experience, his background includes research internships across top industry labs—Microsoft Research, LinkedIn, Salesforce Research, Samsung Research America, and AWS—where he worked on topics from influence maximization to pre-training for machine translation. He combines theoretical depth in AI reliability with practical system-building for healthcare, and his work often emphasizes dependable deployment of AI in clinical settings. An active academic-engineer, he maintains a public research portfolio at lichao-sun.github.io that surfaces reproducible code and applied projects.
7 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lichao-sun/lichao-sun.github.io
May 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:107 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
lichao-sun/Multi-Round-Influence-Maximization
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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