Jiayi Sun is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, supervised by Prof. Shurui Zhou from FORCOLAB.

Her research focuses on software engineering, particularly the sustainability of open-source and scientific software. She uses mixed methods to explore sustainability challenges in scientific software from both social and technical perspectives, with a focus on open-source ecosystems. Her work also involves designing tools to improve collaboration among scientists developing scientific software and help them write code more efficiently.