Yixiao Sun

Yixiao Sun is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.

Sun received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2002. He earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics in 1993 and a master's degree in economics in 1996 from Wuhan University in China.

Sun joined the Department of Economics at UCSD in 2002. He is currently a Professor of Economics and served as the Clive Granger Endowed Chair in Econometrics from 2016 to 2021.

He is currently an editor-in-chief of Econometric Theory alongside Patrik Guggenberger and Liangjun Su. and an associate editor of Journal of Econometrics and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Sun is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, a recipient of the Plura Scripsit Award (2019) and the Multa Scripsit Award (2007) from the journal Econometric Theory.

Sun's research focuses on time series econometrics, nonparametric methods, machine learning as well as causal inference methods.