Jiao Sun

Dr. Jiao Sun is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, specializing in post-training optimization and the development of multimodal models, particularly contributing to the Gemini model series. Throughout her career, Dr. Sun has achieved several academic awards, including the CVPR 2024 Best Paper Award, CHI 2022 Best Paper Honorable Mention, and the ACL 2021 Best Paper Nomination. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California (USC) as a recipient of the 2023 EECS Rising Star Award and the Amazon Machine Learning Ph.D. Fellowship. Dr. Sun's research focuses on controllability in natural language generation, AI fairness, and trustworthy AI, aiming to enhance model reliability and practical utility.

• 2025–Present·Google DeepMind·Senior Research Scientist
  • Focused on post-training optimization for the Gemini models, with an emphasis on improving performance in code generation and WebApp development.
• During Ph.D. | Amazon Alexa AI, Google Research, IBM Research | Research Intern
  • Investigated trustworthy natural language generation, developed controllable text generation models, and enhanced system robustness and fairness.

• 2018–2023·University of Southern California (USC)·Ph.D.
  • Field: Computer Science; Advisors: Xuezhe Ma and Nanyun Peng
• Prior | Tsinghua University | Master’s
  • Field: Computer Science; Advisor: Wei Xu