2017.06 至今 南京理工大学计算机科学与工程学院，副教授
2014.11 - 2017.05 中科院自动化所模式识别国家重点实验室，博士后
2011.01 - 2014.07 博洛尼亚大学（意大利），电子工程、信息和通信，博士
2008.09 - 2010.12 哈尔滨工业大学（深圳），计算机科学与技术，硕士
2004.09 - 2008.07 东北师范大学，计算机科学与技术，本科
期刊审稿人：IEEE TPAMI, TIFS, TNNLS, TCSVT, TKDE 等
会议审稿人：ICCV, CVPR, MM, IJCAI 等
代表性论文：
1. Jie Jiang (硕士生), Yunlian Sun, Depth-based Ensemble Learning Network for Face Anti-spoofing. ICASSP 2022 (CCF B 类会议)
2. Cheng Zhuang (硕士生), Yunlian Sun, GANet: Unary Attention Reaches Pairwise Attention via Implicit Group Clustering in Light-weight CNNs. ICASSP 2022 (CCF B 类会议)
3. Xiahui Chen (硕士生), Yunlian Sun, Xiangbo Shu, Qi Li, Attention-aware Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Facial Age Synthesis. Neurocomputing 2021 (CCF C 类期刊)
4. Yunlian Sun, Jinhui Tang, Zhenan Sun, Massimo Tistarelli, Facial Age and Expression Synthesis Using Ordinal Ranking Adversarial Networks. IEEE TIFS 2020 (CCF A 类期刊)
5. Yunlian Sun, Jinhui Tang, Xiangbo Shu, Zhenan Sun, Massimo Tistarelli, Facial Age Synthesis with Label Distribution-guided Generative Adversarial Network. IEEE TIFS 2020 (CCF A 类期刊)
6. Yunlian Sun, Man Zhang, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Demographic Analysis from Biometric Data: Achievements, Challenges, and New Frontiers. IEEE TPAMI 2018 (CCF A 类期刊)
7. Yunlian Sun, Kamal Nasrollahi, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Complementary Cohort Strategy for Multimodal Face Pair Matching. IEEE TIFS 2015 (CCF A 类期刊)
8. Massimo Tistarelli (PhD Advisor), Yunlian Sun, Norman Poh. On the Use of Discriminative Cohort Score Normalization for Unconstrained Face Recognition. IEEE TIFS 2014 (CCF A 类期刊)
1. Massimo Tistarelli, Yunlian Sun. Cohort based Score Normalization. Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, 2nd Edition, 2014.
2. Massimo Tistarelli, Yunlian Sun. Sparse Representation for Face Recognition. Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, 2nd Edition, 2014.