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Kailai Sun

Postdoctoral Associate

Dr. Kailai Sun is a postdoc in the interdisciplinary research program Mens, Manus, and Machina (M3S) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).  His research interest lies in smart cities and smart buildings, including  computer vision and generative models.


Dr. Kailai Sun obtained his PhD from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, and served as a research fellow at the College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore. As an open-source supporter, he has developed many smart systems and published many articles in top journals for sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Year of Publication:

Venue:

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

2026

Publication Type:

Journal

Status: 

Published

Authors:

Yuhang Wang (UCAS), Heye Huang (SMART), Zhenhua Xu (Tsinghua University), Kailai Sun (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)

SENSE: Satellite-based ENergy Synthesis for Sustainable Environment

Year of Publication:

Venue:

32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

2026

Publication Type:

Conference

Status: 

Accepted

Authors:

Kailai Sun (SMART), Mingyi He (MIT), Heye Huang (SMART), Can Rong (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)

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