Huan Sun

Biography

Huan Sun is an associate professor (with tenure) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. Before joining OSU, she was a visiting scientist at the University of Washington in 2016, received a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara in 2015 and a B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010. Her research interests lie in natural language processing, data mining, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on question answering, semantic parsing, conversational and interactive systems. Her research received the ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). She is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award, Google Research Scholar and Google Faculty Award, OSU Lumley Research Award, and SIGKDD Ph.D. Dissertation Runner-Up Award, among others. Her team TacoBot won third place in the first Alexa Prize TaskBot challenge in 2022 and was the only award-winning team in the US. Their TacoBot is currently deployed in Alexa.