·   2012.9-2017.4: University of Science and Technology of China, Geophysics, Ph.D

·   2008.9-2012.7: Chang’an University, Geophysics, B.Sc

·   2022.7-now  : School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, Assistant Professor

·   2019.8-2022.7: Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, 

·   2017.8-2019.8: Wuhan University/Southern University of Science and Technology, PostDoc

Teaching

Courses：

Teaching assistants for《Quantitative Seismology》(postgraduate course)

Research Interests

·   Computing Seismology and Seismic wavefield modeling in heterogeneous media

·   Strong ground motion and hazard prediction

·   Coseismic electromagnetic modeling

·   Seismic ambient noise imaging

Projects

·   Research on the influence of solid-liquid interface shape of 3-D limited water body, water level and air gun sinking position on the propagation of air gun wavelet signal excited by air gun source in land water body (No. 41904046), 2016.1-2020.12, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, director;

·   Research on seismic surface waves on the solid-liquid interface with three-dimensional complex shapes (No. 2017M620333), 2017.9-2019.8, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, director;

·   Study on the crust mantle velocity structure and its dynamic significance of Tethys tectonic domain (No. 92155307), 2022.1-2025.12, Major research program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, participant;

·   Research on the development strategy of Solid Geophysics (No. XK2018DXC003), 2019.1-2020.12, a joint project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, participant;

·   Research on the physical process of earthquake preparation and occurrence (No. 41790465), 2018.1-2022.12, a major project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, participant;

·   Simulation Research on strong ground motion in key areas (No. 2017YFC500205), 2018.1-2022.12, a project of the Ministry of science and technology - key Research & Development plan, participant.

Publications

·   Zheng Xu-Zhen, Ren Hengxin, Butler Karl E., Zhang Haiming, Sun Yao-Chong, Zhang Wei, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei (2021). Seismoelectric and electroseismic modelling in stratified porous media with a shallow or ground surface source, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(9), e2021JB021950.

·   Ren Hengxin, Zeng Ling, Sun Yao-Chong, Yamazaki Ken'ichi, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei (2021). Semi-analytical solutions of seismo-electromagnetic signals arising from the motional induction in 3-D multi-layered media: part II - numerical investigations, Earth Planets and Space, 73.

·   Yao-Chong Sun, Wei Zhang, Hengxin Ren, Xueyang Bao, Jian-Kuan Xu, Nan Sun, Zhentao Yang, Xiaofei Chen (2021). 3D seismic-wave modeling with a topographic fluid-solid interface at the sea bottom by the curvilinear grid finite-difference method. Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 111(5): 2753-2779.

·   Yao-Chong Sun, Hengxin Ren, Ken'ich Yamazaki, Ling Zeng, Qinghua Huang, Xiaofei Chen (2021). Semi-analytical solutions of seismo-electromagnetic signals arising from the motional induction in 3-D multi-layered media: part I-theoretical formulations. Earth, Planets and Space, 73: 20.

·   Nan Sun, Yao-Chong Sun (2020). Effect of Excitation Factors for Numerically Simulation on Airguan. Hournal of Seismological Research, 43: 53-61.

·   Yao-Chong Sun, Makoto Uyeshima, Hengxin Ren, Qinghua Huang et al. (2019). Numerical simulations to explain the coseismic electromagnetic signals: a case study for a M5.4 aftershcok of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake. Earth, Planets and Space, 71: 143.

·   Yao-Chong Sun, Henxin Ren, Xu-Zhen Zheng, Na Li, Wei Zhang, Qinghua Huang, Xiaofei Chen (2019). 2D poroelastic wave modeling with a topographic free surface by the curvilinear grid finite-difference method. Geophysical Journal International, 218: 196-1982.

·   Yao-Chong Sun, Wei Zhang, Xiaofei Chen (2018). 3D Seismic Wavefield Modeling in Generally Anisotropic Media with a Topographic Free Surface by the Curvilinear Grid Finite-Difference Method. Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 108(3A): 1287-1301.

·   Yao-Chong Sun, Wei Zhang, Jian-Kuan Xu, Xiaofei Chen (2017). Numerical simulation of 2-D seismic wave propagation in the presence of a topographic fluid-solid interface at the sea bottom by the curvilinear grid finite-difference method. Geophysical Journal International, 210(3): 1721-1738.

·   Nan Sun, Yao-Chong Sun，Shan (2017). Numerical simulation of seismic wave field in medium with limited water. Journal of Seismological Research, 4(40): 557-564

·   Yao-Chong Sun, Wei Zhang, Xiaofei Chen (2016). Seismic-wave modeling in the presence of surface topography in 2D general anisotropic media by a curvilinear grid finite-difference method. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 106(3): 1036-1054.

·   Zhenguo Zhang, Yao-Chong SUN, Jiankuan Xu, Wei Zhang, Xiaofei Chen (2014). Preliminary simulation of strong ground motion for Ludian, Yunnan earthquake of 3 August 2014, and hazard implication. Chinese J. Geophys., 57(9), 3038-3041.

·   Zhenguo Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yao-Chong Sun, Gengshang Zhu, Jian Wen, Xiaofei Chen (2014). Preliminary simulation of strong ground motion for Yutian, Xinjiang earthquake of 12 February 2014, and hazard implication. Chinese J. Geophys., 57(2), 685-689.

·   Zhong-Sheng Li, Chao-Ying Bai, Yao-Chong Sun (2013). Seismic wavefield simulation in 2D elastic and viscoelastic tited transversely isotropic media: comparisions between four different kinds of finite-difference grid schemes. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 10(4), 045005.

·   Yao-Chong Sun, Yanteng Zhang, Chaoying Bai (2013). Seismic wavefield simulation in 2D elastic and viscoelastic media: comparison between four different kinds of finite-difference grids. Progress in Geophys, 28(4), 1817-1827.

·   Reviewers of GJI, BSSA, Journal of Geophysics and Engineering and other journals

·   2021 Guangdong geophysical society science and technology award

·  2017 Outstanding doctoral graduate of University of Science and Technology of China

·  2016 CASC scholarship

·  2009 National scholarship