Rate My Professor Wenlong Sun

Wenlong Sun is a researcher in Engineering with expertise in computer engineering and computer science. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Louisville in 2019, a Master's degree in Pattern Recognition from Anhui University of Technology in 2012, and a Bachelor's degree in Communication Engineering from the same institution in 2009. Sun held a position as Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Louisville from 2013 to 2019. He also served as a visiting student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Louisville from 2010 to 2011. Presently, he works as a Data & Applied Scientist at Sojern in San Francisco, California, where he develops accurate, scalable, fair, and interpretable machine learning models.

Sun's academic interests and research specializations include machine learning, deep learning, recommender systems, debiasing techniques for human-recommender system feedback loops, iterated algorithmic bias in interactive machine learning processes, deep clustering, polarization detection in ratings, topic modeling, and early work in bioinformatics and metabolomics. His influential publications feature 'Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction' (PLoS ONE, 2020), 'Debiasing the Human-Recommender System Feedback Loop in Collaborative Filtering' (WWW Companion, 2019), 'Chronic alcohol exposure stimulates adipose tissue lipolysis in mice: role of reverse triglyceride transport in the pathogenesis of alcoholic steatosis' (American Journal of Pathology, 2012), 'Chronic alcohol exposure disturbs lipid homeostasis at the adipose tissue-liver axis in mice' (2013), and 'MetSign: a computational platform for high-resolution mass spectrometry-based metabolomics' (Analytical Chemistry, 2011). These works have collectively amassed hundreds of citations, underscoring his impact in the field. Sun has received key honors including the Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2018), Graduate Student Council Research Fund Award, first place in the University of Louisville Speed Up Competition for a recipe recommendation app, Graduate Research Assistant Scholarship, and University Fellowship. His contributions advance ethical AI and data science applications.