Nike Sun

Email: full name (no punctuation) at stanford dot edu

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Stanford Statistics Department, advised by Prof. Amir Dembo. My research interest is in probability theory.
During summers 2010-11 I was an intern in the Microsoft Research Theory Group where I was mentored by Dr. David Wilson.
Before coming to Stanford, I obtained a B.A. from Harvard Mathematics and an M.A. from Harvard Statistics, in June 2009. I received an M.A.St. Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in June 2010.

This quarter I am a TA for Stats 318: Modern Markov Chains.
Office hours are Fridays 9-10:30a in Sequoia 242.
The class website is on CourseWork.

Past teaching assistantships at Stanford:
(Spring 2012) Math 320C / Stats 310C: Theory of Probability.
(Winter 2011) Stats 217: Introduction to Stochastic Processes.

The replica symmetric solution for Potts models on d-regular graphs.
[ arXiv ] With Amir Dembo, Andrea Montanari, and Allan Sly. Submitted.

The Hausdorff dimension of the CLE gasket.
[ arXiv ] With Jason Miller and David B. Wilson. Annals of Probability (to appear).

Counting in two-spin models on d-regular graphs.
[ arXiv | FOCS ] With Allan Sly. Submitted. Extended abstract in proceedings of FOCS 2012.

Factor models on locally tree-like graphs.
[ arXiv ] With Amir Dembo and Andrea Montanari. Annals of Probability (to appear).

Central limit theorem for biased random walk on multi-type Galton-Watson trees.
[ arXiv | journal ] With Amir Dembo. Electronic Journal of Probability 17:75 (2012), pp. 1-40.

Strong path convergence from Loewner driving convergence.
[ arXiv | journal ] With Scott Sheffield. Annals of Probability 8:2 (2012), pp. 578-610.

Conformally invariant scaling limits in planar critical percolation.
[ arXiv | journal ] Probability Surveys 8 (2011), pp. 155-209.