University of Maryland, College Park, 2004, Ph.D.

Peking University, Beijing, China, 1998, BS.

“The joy of research must be found in doing because every other harvest is uncertain.” [T. Smith]

 

“If you want to make important discoveries, work on important problems.” [P.B. Medawar]

News:

Air Force SBIR Phase I Award	Win Air Force Research SBIR Phase I award in Jan 2009. The project title is “Secure Adaptive Routing Protocol (SARP) for Wireless Sensor Networks”, with Lisa DiPippo at URI and mZeal communications.
NSF Cyber Trust Award	Win NSF Award from Cyber Trust Program in  Oct 2008. The project title is Collaborative Research: Trusted Cooperative Transmission: Turning a Security Weak Link into a Defense Tool.
	New Book:   Yan Sun, Wade Trappe, K. J. Ray Liu, “Network-Aware Security for Group Communications”, ISBN 978-0-387-68846-6, Springer, Oct. 2007   at Amazon: here at Springer: here
NSF CAREER Award	Win NSF CAREER Award in Feb 2007. The project title is Building Trust in Distributed Networks: Theories, Architecture and Applications.
News Articles on My research	“Rating the raters at core of URI profs’ research”  Providence Business News, April 2-8, 2007 (PBN)(scanned version)   “URI research building ‘trust’ tools for networks,” Providence Business News, March 12-18, 2007 (scanned version)
Research Group	NEST: Network Security and Trust Laboratory Find recent research projects and papers here.

 

My research interests are:

 

· Wireless Network Security

· Trust Establishment and Evaluation in Computer Networks

· Information Assurance

· Wireless Communications and Networking

 

Note to Potential Students:  

I tend to not accept MS students unless the MS student is very, very committed to research. Research is a long-term investment in time by the student and the advisor, and consequently Ph.D. students are preferred. I look for a diverse set of talents. Students with background in EE, CE or CS are welcome to apply. Exceptional undergraduate students are also welcome to contact me.

 

Contact Information:

Dr. Yan Sun

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Rhode Island

4 East Alumni Ave. Kingston, RI 02881

Email: x@y, where x = “yansun”, and y = “ele.uri.edu”

 

 

Yan Lindsay Sun

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Rhode Island

4 East Alumni Ave., Kingston, RI 02881

Biographical Sketch