Ting Sun

Ting Sun

I study how weather and climate extremes play out in cities and build the open-source tools that let others model them; AI is now part of how I do both.

I teach because I care about young minds, and by young I mean anyone still genuinely interested in the world we live in and love, whatever their age.

Associate Professor, University College London

Ting Sun speaking at the 16th UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction annual conference, June 2026
Photograph: Ilan Kelman · UCL RDR annual conference, June 2026

On this site

Writing

Thoughts, essays and a research story

First-person and plain-language, in English and 中文. Starts with the long read on how a green roof became the climate of cities.

Publications

Publications

Papers, reports and preprints on urban climate, hydrology and the built environment, each with its abstract, my own note on some, and a route to a version you can open.

Tools & data

Things I build and share

SUEWS, global building data, and an experiment in AI for research.

Asides

Things made, out of curiosity

Pages made beside the main work and shared for fun and inspiration.