About
Yin Sun is the Godbold Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University. His research focuses on timely information updates, wireless networks, and IoT, with emphasis on data freshness metrics and remote estimation systems. He earned his B.S. and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University.
- Education:
- B.S. Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Ph.D. Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
His research interests include wireless communications, cloud computing, and machine learning applications in safety-critical systems. Notable achievements include co-authoring the seminal book on Age of Information and receiving the NSF CAREER Award for his work on goal-oriented status updating. He also serves as Technical Co-Chair for the ACM MobiHoc Symposium and leads Auburn's Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center, addressing real-world communications challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Awards include the 2021 Best Paper Award (Journal of Communications and Networks) and contributions to food pantry inventory optimization via machine learning. His work bridges theoretical foundations with practical systems, emphasizing real-time data relevance and efficient resource allocation strategies.
Advisees/Grants: Leads NSF-funded projects on semantic status updating and collaborates on applications like disease detection in agriculture. Active in advising graduate students through his lab's focus on edge computing and network optimization.
Labs/Teams: Core member of Auburn's Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center, fostering multi-university collaborations in communications research.
