Ying Sun is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer whose research interests include interface and colloid science, thermal fluids, and multiphase flow.
[2] Sun graduated from Tsinghua University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in thermal engineering.
She went to the University of Iowa for graduate study in mechanical engineering, earning a master's degree in 2001 and completing her Ph.D. in 2006.
[4] She moved to Drexel University in 2009, where she became Hess Family Endowed Chair Professor.
[1][6] In 2024, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for seminal contributions to both the development of novel algorithms for multiscale modeling of interfacial and multiphase flows, from the atomistic and mesoscale to the continuum level, and experimental methods with multiple forms of microscopy for characterizing short-lived interfacial dynamics".