Yifan Sun is a Ph.D student of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University under the advisory of Dr. David Kaeli. His research interest lies in heterogeneous system architecture and computer architecture simulation. He has received master of science degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering of University at Buffalo in 2013, and has received bachelor of science degree from the Department of Electronic Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2007.