Nike Sun

Bio

Nike Sun is a Professor of Mathematics, as of July 2024. She joined the department as Associate Professor with tenure in September 2018. Her research interest is at the intersection of probability, statistical physics, and theory of computing. She completed BA mathematics and MA statistics degrees at Harvard in 2009, and an MASt in mathematics at Cambridge in 2010. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 2014 under the supervision of Amir Dembo. She subsequently held a Schramm fellowship at Microsoft New England and MIT Mathematics in 2014-2015, and a Simons postdoctoral fellowship at Berkeley in 2016. She was an Assistant Professor at the Berkeley Statistics Department from 2016 to 2018. She received the 2017 Rollo Davidson Prize (shared with Jian Ding) and the 2020 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize.