Eric Sun
@EricDSun
Machine learning for aging, spatial/single-cell omics, immunology || Incoming Assistant Professor @MIT | PhD @Stanford
I’m very excited to be joining MIT Biological Engineering @MITdeptofBE as an Assistant Professor and the Ragon Institute @ragoninstitute as a member in January 2026! I will be recruiting students and postdocs (see more info below).

Spatial transcriptomic clocks reveal cell proximity effects in brain ageing nature.com/articles/s4158…
How do cellular neighbors shape the aging brain? Knight Initiative researchers Anne Brunet @BrunetLab and James Zou @james_y_zou merge spatial transcriptomics and AI to uncover how local cellular interactions drive brain aging and resilience. Learn more: brainresilience.stanford.edu/news/blight-or…