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]

Recent News:

IFS-TC Member	Dr. Sun is elected as a member of Information and Forensics and Security Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Term: 01/01/2012 – 12/31/2014.
New NSF Award	Dr. Haibo He and  Dr. Yan Sun won a three-year  NSF award in September 2011. The project title is Secure the Electrical Power Grid: Smart Grid versus Smart Attacks. An article about this work is here.
New NSF Award	Dr. Yan Sun won a three-year NSF award in August 2011. The project title is Bridging Reliability Analysis and Reality in Sensor Systems: Theories and Applications. This is a collaborative project with Dr. Liudong Xing and Dr. Vinod Vokkarane at UMass Dartmouth.
Best Paper Award	Dr. Yan Sun and her student Yuhong Liu win the best paper award of SocialCom 2010! This paper, entitled “Anomaly Detection in Feedback-based Reputation Systems through Temporal and Correlation Analysis” was presented on August 20. (The acceptance rate for Socialcom’10 is 10~11%. )
	For more news, please visit here.
Useful Links:	MMSP 2012
	Seasonal School on Social Media Processing
	TIFS Special Issue on Privacy and Trust Management in Cloud and Distributed Systems

 

My research interests are:

·  Network Security

·  Trustworthy Social Computing

·  Power Grid Security

·  Trust in Biomedical Systems

 

 

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

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Eng.

University of Rhode Island

4 East Alumni Ave., Kingston, RI 02881

Biographical Sketch