In 2023, Prof. Zhong Sun was recognized as a member of the Intelligent Computing Innovators China 2022.

In 2021, Prof. Zhong Sun was recognized as a Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Overseas).

In 2019, together with Prof. Daniele Ielmini and Dr. Giacomo Pedretti, Dr. Zhong Sun was awarded the Intellectual Property Award by the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy, recognizing our patent as the best ICT patent of 2019. The award was presented by the the Legal Advisor for Communications and Innovation of Minister Luigi Di Maio.

In 2018, together with Prof. Daniele Ielmini and Dr. Giacomo Pedretti, Dr. Zhong Sun was awarded the Disruptive Innovation Prize in the Switch2Product match, which was organized by Politecnico di Milano and Deloitte Italy.

In 2016, Dr. Zhong Sun was awarded the Chih-Kung Jen Nominee Prize by Department of Physics at Tsinghua University.