Heming Sun received the B.E. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in 2011, and the M.E. degrees from Waseda University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in 2012 and 2014, respectively, through a double-degree program. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Waseda University in 2017.

He was a Researcher at NEC Central Research Laboratories from 2017 to 2018, an Assistant Professor at Waseda University from 2018 to 2023, and an Associate Professor at Yokohama National University from 2023 to 2026. He is currently an Associate Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo.

His research interests include algorithms and VLSI architectures for image and video processing, as well as neural networks. He has authored over 100 journal and conference papers, primarily in venues associated with the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (e.g., TCSVT, TCAS-I, TCAS-II, ISCAS, VCIP), the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (e.g., JSSC, ISSCC, ASSCC), and the IEEE Computer Society (e.g., TIP, CVPR, ICIP).