About
Christopher Sun is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. His research interests lie at the intersection of optimization, machine learning, public health, and health equity. His work primarily revolves around utilizing data-driven optimization and
artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to inform the development of public health policies and
the design of healthcare systems and has been conducted in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, USA), Boston EMS (Boston, USA) , St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto, Canada), and Gentofte Hospital (Copenhagen, Denmark).
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2022 - Present
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019 - 2022
Healthcare Systems Engineering, Massachusetts General Hospital
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Supervisor: Dr. Retsef Levi
PhD, Industrial Engineering (Operations Research), 2014-2019
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Thesis: Improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes and automated external defibrillator placement guidelines through optimization and predictive modeling
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Chan
BASc, Engineering Science (Biomedical Engineering), 2009-2013+PEY
Department of Engineering Science, University of Toronto
Undergraduate Thesis: Real-time gesture recognition in a real life environment
Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Goldie Nejat
