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Sun Yeneng is Goh Keng Swee Professor of Economics and Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He holds a B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China (1983) and M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on mathematical economics, analysis, and probability theory, with contributions to topics including large games, equilibria in economies with many agents, stochastic processes, and the law of large numbers.

Sun Yeneng joined NUS in 1989 as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and advanced to professor in 2002. He has served as professor in the Department of Economics since 2003, head of that department from 2008 to 2012, and director of the Risk Management Institute from 2018 to 2020. He was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2020. His honors include election as Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science in 2014, Economic Theory Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2011, the National Science Award of Singapore in 2000, and the Outstanding University Researcher Award from NUS in 1998. Selected publications include works in Econometrica (2019), Journal of Economic Theory (multiple years including 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2012, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2003), Theoretical Economics (2020, 2017, 2015), and Advances in Mathematics (2018, 2009, 2007). He serves on editorial boards of Economic Theory, Economic Theory Bulletin, Annals of Finance, and Journal of Logic and Analysis. He has organized major conferences such as the 2013 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society and has supervised numerous Ph.D. students.