Wen Sun received a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019, where he was advised by Drew Bagnell, and he received a Master of Science from the computer science department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, he got his Bachelors of Science from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (SFU & ZU Dual Degree Program) in 2012.