Qiang Sun

Dr Qiang Sun is a researcher based at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, with a strong background in computational physics and engineering. Holding a PhD from University College London, Dr Sun further developed his expertise at the National University of Singapore before coming to Australia in 2015 under the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.

Dr Sun specialises in theoretical and numerical modelling across diverse fields such as wave optics, acoustics, colloidal electrostatic interactions, nonlinear solitons, and fluid mechanics. He is known for developing accessible non-singular boundary element methods (NSBEM) for solving linear partial differential equations, which simplify the use of this traditionally difficult technique and enable multi-scale problems to be solved accurately and efficiently. He applies NSBEM to problems such as optical trapping and rotation for nano-rheology, photocatalysts for water treatments, multilayer hybrid material clusters for field enhancements, heat transfer improvements in nanofluids, and flow drag reductions. Dr Sun is also interested in using deep learning methods for a wide range of problems, including ocean wave height predictions and archaeological geospatial feature analysis.