Selected moments from places I have visited.
About Me
I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Analytics & Operations at Imperial Business School, where I am very fortunate to work with Prof. Wolfram Wiesemann and Prof. Zhe Liu. My research lies at the intersection of data-driven optimization, generative AI, machine learning, geometry, and game theory, with broad applications in data science.
I received my MRes degree in Analytics & Operations from the Imperial Business School in 2024. Prior to that, I obtained both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the Beijing Institute of Technology. During my undergraduate studies, I also participated in an exchange program at the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, from September 2018 to March 2019.
Research
Research Interests
- Data-driven Optimization
- Generative AI and Machine Learning
- Game Theory
- Geometry
Publications (*: equal contribution).
Robust Weakly Coupled Markov Decision Processes
Fupeng Sun, Huikang Liu, Zhe Liu, Wolfram Wiesemann.
Working in Progress.
Multi-Step Visual Reasoning with Visual Tokens Scaling and Verification
Tianyi Bai*, Zengjie Hu*, Fupeng Sun*, Jiantao Qiu, et al.
The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025). [Link]
The Role of Prescreening in Auctions with Predictions
Yanwei Sun*, Fupeng Sun*, Chiwei Yan, Jiahua Wu.
The 21st Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE'25). [Link]
Restricting Entries to All-Pay Contests
Fupeng Sun*, Yanwei Sun*, Chiwei Yan, Li Jin.
International Journal of Game Theory; ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC'24. [Link]
ECG Classification based on Wasserstein Scalar Curvature
Fupeng Sun, Yin Ni, Yihao Luo, Huafei Sun.
Entropy, 2022. [Link]
A novel heart disease classification algorithm based on Fourier transform and persistent homology
Yin Ni, Fupeng Sun, Yihao Luo, Zhengrui Xiang, Huafei Sun.
EEBDA, 2022. [Link]
The Bayesian Inference of Pareto Models Based on Information Geometry
Fupeng Sun, Yueqi Cao, Shiqiang Zhang, Huafei Sun.
Entropy, 2021. [Link]
Awards & Honors
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Dean’s List for Academic Excellence
Imperial Business School, 2023–2024
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XUTELI Scholarship at Beijing Institute of Technology
2023. (Highest honor at BIT)
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Self-Improvement Star Scholarship
Ministry of Education of China, 2022. (Only 1,832 students received this nationwide)
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National Scholarship (4x Recipient)
Ministry of Education of China, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017
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Excellent Student of Beijing (2x Recipient)
Beijing Municipal Education Commission, 2022, 2021
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First Prize, "Internet+" Competition, Beijing Site
China Int'l College Students' Innovation Competition, 2022
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Outstanding Graduate of Beijing
Beijing Municipal Education Commission, 2020
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Second Prize, National Mathematical Competition
Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS), 2019
Professional Service
Co-organizer: Session "Robust Dynamic Decision Making" of the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, IISE Transactions.
Teaching
Imperial Business School
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Big Data, AI & Machine Learning (Executive MBA & Global Online MBA)
Summer 2025 & 2026 -
Data Analytics and Visualisation for Business (Global Health Management)
Summer 2025 & 2026 -
Logistics & Supply Chain Analytics (Business Analytics & Online)
Fall 2024 & 2025; Spring 2025 & 2026 -
Maths and Statistics Foundations for Analytics (Business Analytics)
Fall 2024 & 2025 -
Optimisation (PhD)
Fall 2024 & 2025
Previously at Beijing Institute of Technology
TA & Lecturing- Mathematical Analysis
- Advanced Algebra
- Probability Theory
- Mathematical Statistics
- Matrix Analysis
- Graph Theory
- Topology
Talks
- 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2026 [scheduled]
- 2026 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing (RMP) Conference, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, July 2026 [scheduled]
- 2026 INFORMS MSOM Conference, Harvard Business School, July 2026 [scheduled]
- SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP26), Edinburgh, June 2026
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 2025
- 2025 International Workshop on Applied Geometry and Related Topics, Keio University, July 2025
- 2024 IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability, Yinchuan, July 2024
- The 15th International Annual Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering, CUHK (Shenzhen), July 2023
Gallery — Visual Notes from the World
A personal collection of sunlit days, moon-washed nights, and skies strewn with stars; of mountains and rivers, lakes and seas; of wandering through cities, lingering in museums, and finding beauty in quiet, unguarded moments. With heartfelt gratitude to the friends who walked beside me, shared the road, the laughter, and the wonder, and made every journey brighter!
Miscellanies
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I delivered the valedictorian speech at Beijing Institute of Technology in July 2023.
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For those who are interested, my Chinese name is 孙(Sun) 福鹏(Fupeng).