Ying Sun is a Chinese-American agricultural scientist and environmental scientist whose research combines space-based sensing and land surface modeling to study the interactions between climate and agricultural ecosystems.
[1] Her doctoral dissertation, Role of Mesophyll CO2 Diffusion and Large-Scale Disturbances in the Interactions between Climate and Carbon Cycles, was supervised by Robert E.
[2] She was a postdoctoral researcher, jointly between the University of Texas and with Christian Frankenberg at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,[3][4] before taking her present faculty position at Cornell in 2016.
[4] In 2024, Sun's research group developed a remote sensing method to assess and predict crop yield by measuring the solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF).
[5] This approach using satellite data is cost-effective and has the potential to inform policy making, crop insurance, and poverty forecasting.