# Xiaoxun (Rick) Sun

> Xiaoxun (Rick) Sun is the cofounder and CEO of LaiOffer, a Silicon Valley technical education company established with Jing Zhao in 2013. A former Google engineer and interviewer, he has a USC computer science doctorate and research experience in incremental search and path planning. His public work connects technical instruction with career preparation.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at 来Offer (LaiOffer)
- **Organizations:** 来Offer (LaiOffer), Google, University of Southern California
- **Education:** B.E. in Computer Science, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang University), M.S. in Media and Knowledge Engineering (with honors), Delft University of Technology, M.S. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Received a USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship in 2007., Coauthored AI search research published at AAMAS, IJCAI and ICAPS and in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems., Cofounded LaiOffer in 2013; its public biography credits him with helping more than 8,000 students enter technology companies (company-reported, undated).

## Career timeline

- **2007** — Received a USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship, according to the IDM Lab biography.
- **2008** — Coauthored Generalized Adaptive A* with Sven Koenig and William Yeoh.
- **2009** — Coauthored work on real-time heuristic search and distributed constraint optimization.
- **2010** — Coauthored Moving Target D* Lite.
- **2012** — Coauthored Incremental ARA* for moving-target search.
- **2013** — USC lists his doctoral dissertation, Incremental Search-Based Path-Planning for Moving Target Search.
- **Before and during early LaiOffer years; exact dates unverified** — Worked at Google as an engineer and interviewer.
- **2013** — Cofounded LaiOffer with Jing Zhao.
- **2017** — Participated in a technical interview seminar with Emily Campana, Ed Campana and Jing Zhao.
- **2018** — Listed as speaker for campus career talks and a self-driving engineering lecture.
- **2021-2023** — Lists MIT education on his public LinkedIn profile.

## Achievements

- Received a USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship in 2007.
- Coauthored AI search research published at AAMAS, IJCAI and ICAPS and in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
- Cofounded LaiOffer in 2013; its public biography credits him with helping more than 8,000 students enter technology companies (company-reported, undated).

## Links

- Website: https://www.laioffer.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaoxun-rick-sun-101ab5134

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Last updated: 2026-10-13