Eric Sun was the Engineering Manager of the Entity Data and Ranking team at Facebook. He built Facebook's knowledge graph and oversaw engineering for Facebook's entity graph efforts. [1] Prior to Facebook, he received a master's degree in Statistics and bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Economics (with honors) from Stanford University. [2] His thesis was supervised by Susan Athey. [3]
He held six issued U.S. patents and published numerous academic papers related to social networks and contagion theory. [4] In 2016, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma. He died on November 23, 2017. [5] Prior to his death, he and his wife Karen Law established the Tarisio Trust: Eric Sun-Karen Law Vuillaume Fellowship, which loans his 1855 violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume to accomplished young violinists for the purposes of community building. [6]
