Xingshu Sun has won two Best Poster Awards in the 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2017, for his work on "The Potential of Bifacial Photovoltaics: A Global Perspective" and "Real-time Monitoring of Photovoltaic Reliability Only Using Maximum Power Point – the Suns-Vmp Method". The PVSC received around 1000 abstract submissions this year.

Xingshu Sun is a Ph.D. candidate advised by Professors Muhammad A. Alam and Mark Lundstrom.