Yan Sun is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, China. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2018 from the University of Southampton, UK, under the supervision of Professor Mark Nixon and Professor Jonathon Hare.
She received Shanghai Pujiang Program in 2020. She has managed 1 National Natural Science Foundation Project in 2021 and participated in National High-tech Programs and MIIT Special Program for Ships as a key researcher. She has hosted the IEEE-WIE at the 15th Chinese Conference on Biometrics Recognition.
Her research interests mainly focus on computer vision, image processing, analyzing different types of motion in videos, including gait analysis, action recognition, object tracking, etc. Currently, she has published nearly 20 peer-reviewed articles in top journals and conferences, including Pattern Recognition and other top journals and conferences.
