Chengnian Sun

Professor Chengnian Sun joined the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in August 2019. Before joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Chengnian was a software engineer at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, working on Java/Android compiler toolchains and machine learning platform for Google Search. Prior to Google, he spent three wonderful years working on techniques to detect 1600+ bugs in GCC and LLVM with his colleagues at UC Davis.

Chengnian’s research interests are in software engineering and programming languages, focusing on techniques, tools and methodologies for improving software quality and developers’ productivity. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore.