Eric Sun

Eric Sun is an incoming Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with his professorship beginning in 2026. He leads the Sun Lab, which focuses on modeling aging and complex biology across multiple biological scales, from individual cells to whole organisms. His research aims to understand aging as a systems-level process and to develop computational and machine learning frameworks that can quantify biological aging, predict the effects of genetic and environmental interventions, and design new strategies to improve healthspan and delay disease. The lab develops AI and statistical models to simulate cellular and tissue-level dynamics, integrating these approaches with experimental data from single-cell and spatial omics technologies. These models are validated using imaging and perturbational assays, enabling mechanistic insight and hypothesis-driven intervention design. His work bridges computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, machine learning, and neuroimmunology, with the long-term goal of translating multi-scale biological modeling into actionable interventions for aging and immune-related diseases.