Hongbo Sun received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2002 as a Research Fellow. Between July 2004 and October 2019, he was with Temasek Laboratories at NTU as Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, and Programme Manager. Since October 2019, he has been with Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, as a Senior Scientist. He is currently a Principal Scientist and the Head of Satellite Communications and Sensing Division in I2R.

Dr. Sun has very wide range of research experience on radar systems, radar signal processing, phased array system and satellite communication. He has been the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IET Electronics Letters, and the Guest Associate Editor for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letter. Previously he had ever served as the Chair of IEEE AESS/GRSS Joint Singapore Chapter for two terms (2016-2017 and 2022-2023), and TPC Members / Session Chairs of numerous IEEE international conferences. He was also the recipient of the Excellent Paper Award at the 2006 RADAR conference. Since 2020, he has been appointed as the IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecturer.