Junzi Sun, Ph.D.

About Me

Junzi is an assistant professor at TU Delft, researching data science and sustainability for air transportation, at the Aerospace Engineering Faculty. His is also passionate in making aviation research open and reproducible. He has developed several popular open-source tools for aviation research, including pyModeS, OpenAP, and TOP. Junzi is also the author of the book The 1090 Megahertz Riddle, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Open Aviation Science.

What’s up?

  1. Have you heard of tangram? It is an open framework that aggregates and processes ADS-B and Mode S surveillance data for real-time analysis. Join or follow the development on GitHub repository.

  2. We are promoting the Journal of Open Aviation Science, a diamond open-access journal (free to publish and read), open peer review, with mandatory open data and open tools. Every paper is centered around open-science and reproducibility in aviation research.

Research interests

Teaching at university

Work experience

Education

Awards and personal grants

Other activities



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