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Yiqun Sun ()

COM1-01-07, 13 Computing Dr, Singapore 117417 · WeChat/Telegram @ dukesun99 (lowercase) · syq AT nus.edu.sg

Sun Yiqun is currently a PhD candidate and research assistant under supervision of Prof. Anthony Tung.

Research interests: Knowledge Graphs, LLM, Diversified news search and more!

Experience

Research Assistant

National University of Singapore

Working on a project titled "Quantifying and Recommending Diversified News for Fact Checking using Knowledge Graphs" parked under the Center for Trusted Internet in the Community (CTIC) with Prof. Anthony Tung and Prof. Gao Cong.

Jan, 2021 - Present

Internship

NUS Suzhou Research Institute AI Center

I am supervised by Prof. Ng Teck Khim and worked with Prof. Xu Yin, Prof. Wang Zixiao and Dr.Lin Qian on a blockchain project based on ForkBase - An efficient storage engine for blockchain and Forkable applications developed by NUS DB System group at NUS AI Centre in Suzhou.

Skills: C++, Actor Framework, Blockchain consensus algorithms

May, 2019 - Aug, 2019

Research Assistant (part-time)

National University of Singapore

I work together with Prof. Anthony Tung in a project with Singapore Tourism Board. In this project, my job is user generated data crawling, data visualization and data analysis.

Skills: Python, Machine Learning, Data crawling and cleaning, Data Visualisation

Feb, 2018 - Dec, 2020

Teaching Assistant (part-time)

National University of Singapore

I serve as a tutor for CS1101S Programming Methodology I (Year 18/19 Sem 1) with Prof. Martin Henz and CS1010 Programming Methodology I (Year 18/19 Sem 2) with Prof. Anthony Tung. My job is running tutorial, marking student submission, writing lab assignments and consultation with students.

Skills: Teaching, Presentation, Communication, Collaboration, JavaScript

— Aug, 2018 - Nov, 2018 and Jan 2019 - May, 2019

Education

National University of Singapore

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science

Supervisor: Prof. Anthony Tung

Jan, 2021 - Present

National University of Singapore

Bachelor of Computing in Computer Science (Honor, Highest Distinction)

Focus areas: Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Distributed Systems, Algorithms and Theory, Programming Language and Parallel Computing.

Exchange experience at Northwesten University (Sep, 2019 - Dec, 2019)

Aug, 2017 – Dec, 2020

Volunteering (Open to other positions)

Python Instructor

Code in the Community

Teaching kids in Singapore with disadvantaged backgrounds at Code in the Community.

Mar, 2020 - Aug, 2020

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
What's more
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Haskell
  • X10
  • Pascal
  • CUDA
  • MPI
  • CAF

Awards & Certifications

  • National Olympiad of Informatics, China (NOI China) First Prize in Shandong Province, China