Hongyu Sun

Education

• 2017–2022, Ph.D. in Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2014–2017, M.S. in Geophysics, Jilin University
• 2010–2014, B.S. in Geophysics, Jilin University

Professional Appointments

• 2026–, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
• 2024–2026, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso
• 2022–2024, Postdoc Scholar, California Institute of Technology
• 2021 Summer, Geophysics Research Intern, TotalEnergies
• 2020 Summer, Geoscience Research Intern, ExxonMobil
• 2019 Summer, Geophysics Research Intern, TotalEnergies
• 2015 Fall, Research Assistant, The University of Tulsa

Awards and Honors

• 2026 — J. Clarence Karcher Award, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
• 2026 — Protégé, Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science & Technology (TAMEST)
• 2025 — NSF CAIG Award (Lead PI)
• 2025 — Among the top 10% most–viewed papers in Geophysical Research Letters: Sun et al. (2023), “Phase Neural Operator for Multi–Station Picking of Seismic Arrivals”
• 2021–2022 — MIT MathWorks Science Fellowship

Academic Services

• Handling Editor, Seismica, 2024 –
• Reviewer for Proposals: U.S. National Science Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Reviewer for Journals: Geophysics, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Geophysical Journal International, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, The Seismic Record, Geophysical Prospecting, Communications Earth & Environment, Computers & Geosciences, Remote Sensing, Seismological Research Letters, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Tectonophysics.
• Reviewer for Conference Proceedings: International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition