Ying Sun (mechanical engineer)
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Ying Sun is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer whose research interests include interface and colloid science, thermal fluids, and multiphase flow.[1] She is currently the Dean's Professor and Department Chair of the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science Department at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[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.[3]
She began her academic career as an assistant professor at Binghamton University;[4] Zhiting Tian, a master's student at Binghamton at that time, has named her as a mentor.[5] She moved to Drexel University in 2009, where she became Hess Family Endowed Chair Professor.[4] In 2019 she began a term as a program director at the National Science Foundation, in the Thermal Transport Processes Program.[4][6] She served as the Department Head in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Cincinnati in 2022 [4], where she was also the Herman Schneider Professor [3]. In 2025, she started her current position at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[2]