Jiefeng Sun

Assistant Professor,

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Jiefeng.Sun@asu.edu

Mail code: 6106

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Jiefeng Sun is an assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University. His research focused on the design and modeling of artificial-muscle-driven robots that match the adaptivity of natural organisms. He was a postdoc at Yale University with Prof. Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio and he obtained his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University. His work has been selected as the finalist for the best student paper award at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). He is the Reviewer of the Year 2021 for Smart Materials and Structures Journal and he is also selected as a 2022 DARPA Riser. Lab website: https://sunrobotics.lab.asu.edu/

Education

Ph.D. in Robotics and Control, Colorado State University, 2022

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 2017

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, 2014

Research Website URL

https://sunroboticslab.github.io

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fjUoHOsAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interests

Hire students to conduct research

https://sunroboticslab.github.io

Courses

2025 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
MAE 792	Research
MAE 493	Honors Thesis
MAE 494	Special Topics
MAE 598	Special Topics

2024 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
MAE 599	Thesis
MAE 792	Research
MAE 492	Honors Directed Study
ASU 101-MEE	The ASU Experience
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 593	Applied Project
MAE 792	Research
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I

2024 Summer

Course Number	Course Title
MAE 792	Research

2024 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 792	Research
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I
MAE 318	System Dynamics and Control I

Expertise Areas

Autonomous Technologies

Control Systems

Mechanical Engineering

Robotics