Jiankai Sun

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 662 citations indexed

About

Jiankai Sun is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jiankai Sun has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 662 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jiankai Sun's work include Human Pose and Action Recognition (4 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (4 papers) and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (3 papers). Jiankai Sun is often cited by papers focused on Human Pose and Action Recognition (4 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (4 papers) and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (3 papers). Jiankai Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Jiankai Sun's co-authors include Bolei Zhou, Bowen Pan, Alex Andonian, Jiaxu Wang, Mingyu Ding, Jianping Shi, Zhe Wang, Ping Luo, Xin Zhang and Benny Lo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The International Journal of Robotics Research and Reliability Engineering & System Safety.

In The Last Decade

Jiankai Sun

20 papers receiving 644 citations

Hit Papers

Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, ... 2024 2026 2025 2024 20 40 60
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future
    2024 73 citations Roya Firoozi, Stephen Tian et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jiankai Sun China 10 351 183 167 114 70 23 662
Abhishek Gupta Canada 9 199 0.6× 103 0.6× 95 0.6× 45 0.4× 107 1.5× 22 498
You Hong Eng Singapore 10 252 0.7× 111 0.6× 89 0.5× 187 1.6× 366 5.2× 13 647
Abdulwahab Alazeb Saudi Arabia 16 392 1.1× 66 0.4× 171 1.0× 37 0.3× 27 0.4× 50 749
Fabio Poiesi Italy 14 336 1.0× 157 0.9× 146 0.9× 21 0.2× 21 0.3× 52 595
Jason Rambach Germany 14 380 1.1× 217 1.2× 59 0.4× 183 1.6× 21 0.3× 41 611
Josef Pauli Germany 10 180 0.5× 65 0.4× 80 0.5× 55 0.5× 94 1.3× 61 340
Qieshi Zhang China 14 423 1.2× 83 0.5× 156 0.9× 73 0.6× 43 0.6× 91 685
Zhe Xuanyuan China 9 281 0.8× 120 0.7× 116 0.7× 146 1.3× 241 3.4× 20 659
Zhenchao Ouyang China 12 199 0.6× 53 0.3× 71 0.4× 27 0.2× 106 1.5× 39 423

Countries citing papers authored by Jiankai Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jiankai Sun

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jiankai Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jiankai Sun. The network helps show where Jiankai Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jiankai Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jiankai Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jiankai Sun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jiankai Sun. Jiankai Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Xin, et al.. (2025). Physics-informed deep learning with multi-resolution for ensemble prediction of lithium-ion battery health status. Measurement Science and Technology. 36(2). 25019–25019. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Jiankai, Hongsong Wang, Jianing Qiu, et al.. (2024). Localization and recognition of human action in 3D using transformers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 125–125.
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Firoozi, Roya, Stephen Tian, Anirudha Majumdar, et al.. (2024). Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 44(5). 701–739. 73 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qiu, Jianing, Jiankai Sun, Peilun Shi, et al.. (2023). Large AI Models in Health Informatics: Applications, Challenges, and the Future. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 27(12). 6074–6087. 111 indexed citations
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Sun, Jiankai, et al.. (2023). DPAUC: Differentially Private AUC Computation in Federated Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(12). 15170–15178. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Jiankai, et al.. (2023). PAOLTransformer: Pruning-adaptive optimal lightweight Transformer model for aero-engine remaining useful life prediction. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 240. 109605–109605. 44 indexed citations
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Sun, Jiankai, Yan Xu, Mingyu Ding, et al.. (2023). NeRF-Loc: Transformer-Based Object Localization Within Neural Radiance Fields. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(8). 5244–5250. 6 indexed citations
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Qiu, Jianing, Lipeng Chen, Xiao Gu, et al.. (2022). Egocentric Human Trajectory Forecasting With a Wearable Camera and Multi-Modal Fusion. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(4). 8799–8806. 9 indexed citations
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Sun, Jiankai, De-An Huang, Bo Lu, et al.. (2022). PlaTe: Visually-Grounded Planning With Transformers in Procedural Tasks. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 4924–4930. 20 indexed citations
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Sun, Jiankai, et al.. (2022). Self-Supervised Traffic Advisors: Distributed, Multi-view Traffic Prediction for Smart Cities. 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). 917–922. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, Jiankai, et al.. (2020). Neuro-Symbolic Program Search for Autonomous Driving Decision Module Design.. 21–30. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Xiangyu, et al.. (2020). Transferable Active Grasping and Real Embodied Dataset. 3611–3618. 14 indexed citations
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Pan, Bowen, et al.. (2020). Cross-View Semantic Segmentation for Sensing Surroundings. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(3). 4867–4873. 170 indexed citations
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Xie, Sirui, et al.. (2020). Learning a Decision Module by Imitating Driver's Control Behaviors.. 1–10. 7 indexed citations
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Yu, Haibao, et al.. (2020). Low-bit Quantization Needs Good Distribution. 2909–2918. 8 indexed citations
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Pan, Bowen, et al.. (2019). Cross-Stream Selective Networks for Action Recognition. 454–460. 7 indexed citations
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Ding, Mingyu, Zhe Wang, Jiankai Sun, Jianping Shi, & Ping Luo. (2019). CamNet: Coarse-to-Fine Retrieval for Camera Re-Localization. 2871–2880. 75 indexed citations

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