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my name is Qingnan Sun (Chinese: 孙庆楠) and I just finished my PhD program at ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Now I am a researcher at ARTORG Center. My research topic is the personalization of insulin delivery, based on the reinforcement-learning algorithms (read more).

I completed my studies in Automation and Control Technology at Chongqing University (CQU, China) and at Dresden University of Technology (TUD, Germany). After graduation, I researched as a scholar at the Institute of Electromechanical and Electronic Design (IFTE, Germany) for one and a half years. In April 2016, I started my PhD project here at ARTORG.

I have applied my knowledge and experience in Automation and Control Technology as well as in Reinforcement Learning for different projects:

  • 2016 – 2020  PhD Project – AI-Based personalised blood glucose regulation
  • 2014 – 2016  Scholar Project – Linear direct drive for short strokes (Info and Videos)
  • 2014  Master’s Thesis – Pilot project at Bosch Rexroth for Industry 4.0
  • 2012  Research Internship – Temperature control for a heating-cooling device (Info of the device)
  • 2010  Bachelor’s Thesis – Modelling and Simulation of Electric Power Steering (EPS) system
  • 2008  Innovation Program – On-site wireless testing system for building energy-saving

News (Read more): 

25 June 2020 – I successfully completed my dissertation defense!!! Joined the Dr. – Club!

Nov 2019 – Our paper A Dual Mode Adaptive Basal-Bolus Advisor Based on Reinforcement Learning has just been published on IEEE Xplore. Cite: Q. Sun et al., “A Dual Mode Adaptive Basal-Bolus Advisor Based on Reinforcement Learning,” in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 2633-2641, Nov. 2019.

Jun 2019 – I participated in EMBC 2019 and presented our work.

Dec 2018 – Our paper A dual mode adaptive basal-bolus advisor based on reinforcement learning was accepted by JBHI (IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics)

Nov 2018 – I presented our two papers Predicting Blood Glucose with an LSTM and Bi-LSTM Based Deep Neural Network and Impact of Errors in Carbohydrate Estimation on Control of Blood Glucose in Type 1 Diabetes at 14th Symposium on Neural Networks and Applications (EUREL2018) in Belgrade, Serbia.

Oct 2018 – I gave a presentation at the annual conference of Chinese Association of Science and Technology in Switzerland (CASTS) in Zürich.

Apr 2018 – The book Technology Sentinel (ISBN978-7-5086-8833-6) (中文|English), for which I wrote the chapter Artificial pancreas brings new dawn to diabetics was published by CITIC Publishing Group.