Nike Sun is a probability theorist who works as a Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as of July 2024, on leave from the department of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her dissertation, Gibbs measures and phase transitions on locally tree-like graphs, was supervised by Amir Dembo.
[1][2][3] After postdoctoral research at Microsoft Research in New England, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics Department, and as a Simons Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor in 2016.
[1][2] Sun was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize, given annually to an early-career probability theorist, in 2017.
[4] She was awarded the 2020 Wolfgang Doeblin prize by the Bernoulli Society, given biannually to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability, and who is at the beginning of their mathematical career.