Profesor Sun's research activities involve plasma assisted combustion, chemical kinetics of different fuels, and laser diagnostics and spectroscopy of reacting flow systems.

Professor Sun was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

He earned a B.Eng & an M. Eng from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China; and his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.