Education

Ph.D.	Applied and Computational Mathematics	Princeton University	2006
M.S.	Computational Mathematics	Peking University	2002
B.S.	Computational Mathematics	Peking University	1999

Experience

01/2021 – present	Professor, University of South Carolina
08/2015 – 12/2020	Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
08/2011 – 08/2015	Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
08/2009 – 08/2011	NSF Joint Institutes' Postdoc, Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
07/2006 – 07/2009	Research Scientist,  Courant Institute, NYU

Courses Taught

Research

My research interests include

• Multiscale analysis, modeling and simulation in solids, fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology
• Mathematical modeling and computation of biomaterials, complex biofluids, and cellular dynamics
• Mathematical and computational neuroscience: dynamical system and chaos in neuronal networks
• Network dynamics and flows: modeling, analysis and simulation for traffic flow.

Selected Publications

• Yi Sun,  
     Simulations of bi-direction pedestrian flow using kinetic Monte Carlo methods,
     Physica A, 524 (2019), pp. 519–531.
• Yi Sun,
      Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional pedestrian flow models,
     Physica A, 505 (2018), pp.836–847.
• E. Bulanova, E. Koudan, J. Degosserie, C. Heymans, F. Pereira, V. Parfenov, Yi Sun, Qi Wang, S. Akhmedova, I. Sviridova, N. Sergeeva, G. Frank, Y. Khesuani, C. Pierreux, V. Mironov,
      Bioprinting of a functional vascularized mouse thyroid gland construct,
      Biofabrication, 9 (2017), pp.034105.
• Yi Sun, Qi Wang,
     In-silico analysis on 3D biofabrication using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations,
     Advances in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2 (2017), pp.00045.
• Yi Sun, Xiaofeng Yang, Qi Wang,
     In-silico analysis on biofabricating vascular networks using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations,
     Biofabrication, 6 (2014), pp.015008.
• Pierre Gremaud, Yi Sun,
     Numerical study of singularity formation in relativistic Euler flows,
     Communications in Computational Physics, 16 (2014), pp.348–364.
•  Yi Sun, Ilya Timofeyev,
     Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of 1D and 2D traffic flows: Comparison of two look-ahead rules,
     Physical Review E, 89 (2014), pp.052810.
• Yi Sun, Qi Wang,
     Modeling and simulations of multicellular aggregate self-assembly in biofabrication using kinetic Monte Carlo methods,  
  
     Soft Matter, 9 (2013), pp.2172–2186.
• Yi Sun, Aaditya V. Rangan, Douglas Zhou, David Cai,
     Coarse-grained event tree analysis for quantifying Hodgkin-Huxley neuronal network dynamics,
     Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 32 (2012), pp.55–72. 
• Yi Sun, Russel Caflisch, Bjorn Engquist,
     A multiscale method for epitaxial growth,
     SIAM Multiscale Model. Simul., 9 (2011), pp.335–354.