Kai Sun's Academic Home Page

Welcome to my homepage! I am Kai Sun (孙锴). I am currently a research scientist at Meta Reality Labs. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2021. My advisor was Claire Cardie. Before that, I did my undergraduate studies in Computer Science, in the ACM Honors Class 2011 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

My research interests lie broadly in artificial intelligence (AI), especially natural language processing (NLP) and AI in Board Games.


Publications

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(*: equal contribution)


Gomoku and Renju AI

I designed Yixin, an AI program playing Gomoku and Renju. It was the world champion AI, the winner of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Gomocup.

Yixin was the first Gomoku and Renju AI that can compete at the human champion level. It beat Taiwan's Meijin title holder Lin Shu-Hsuan and the world Gomoku champion Rudolf Dupszki in 2017, and drew with world Renju champion Qi Guan in 2018.

I have been managing Gomocup (with Tianyi Hao) since the 17th Gomocup, 2016.


Contact

Email: ks985 [at] cornell [dot] edu

Last updated: June 2024