Ying Sun | AIChE

Ying Sun

Program Director
National Science Foundation

Dr. Ying Sun is the Program Director of the Thermal Transport Processes Program in the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation. The program supports fundamental and transformative research in thermodynamics, and heat and mass transfer. Dr. Sun is also a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Drexel University. Her research interests include multiphase flows and heat/mass transfer, complex fluids, and multiscale modeling with applications in energy systems and advanced manufacturing. She was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellowship, French CNRS Visiting Professorship, and Drexel College of Engineering Research Achievement Award. She was an ELATE Leadership Fellow and a visiting professor at Princeton University, Ecole Polytechnique, and Tsinghua University. Dr. Sun serves as an Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage.