Dr. Don X. Sun
Dr. Don X. Sun
Dr. Sun is currently a quantitative researcher at Citadel Investment Group, Chicago, IL, since 2006. Prior to that, he held two other similar positions at Knight Capital Group and JPMorgan Securities since 2002. Between 1995 and 2002, he has been a Member of Technical Staff in the Statistics Research Department at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies since 1995 (http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/dxsun). He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, during 1993-1995.
He received both B.S. in Applied Mathematics and M.S. in Statistics from Southeast University, China in 1989 (undersupervision of Dr. Bocheng Wei). He received Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Waterloo,Canada in 1993 (under supervision of Dr. Jeff Wu).
Dr. Sun’s main research interests include statistical design of experiments, quality engineering, signal processing and speech recognition, graphical methods and distributed computing for analyzing massive datasets, data mining, and Internet traffic research in measurement, analysis, modeling, and network simulation(http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/InternetTraffic). He has published over 30 papers in statistics journals including Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, JRSS, JASA and engineering journals including Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, and ACM Sigmetrics. Some representative articles are: “A catalogue of two-level and three-level fractional factorial designs with small runs”, 1993, International Statistical Review; “Optimal Blocking Schemes for 2n and 2n-p Designs”,1997, Technometrics (Winner of 1998 Jack Youden prize); “Analysis of Interval Censored Data from Fractionated ExperimentsUsing Covariance Adjustments”, 2000, Technometrics (Winner of 2000 Frank Wilcoxon prize);”On the Nonstationarity of Internet Traffic”, ACM SIGMETRICS, 2001.
Dr. Sun was a member of the ICSA Board of Directors (2001-2003), and a member of the ICSA communications committee responsible for the ICSA web site since 1997. He developed the first ICSA applied symposium web site in 1997, and has developed and maintained web sites for many other ICSA applied symposia and ICSA Conferences.