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Professor Yan (Lindsay) Sun is a faculty member at the University of Rhode Island in the College of Engineering under the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering. She is the founding director of the Center for Cyber-Physical Intelligence and Security (CYPHER) and an IEEE Fellow. Her research focuses on cyber-physical systems security, power grid security, network security, and trustworthy social computing, with a particular emphasis on trust modeling and management in complex systems.
Her publications span smart grid security, microgrid control, machine learning applications in power systems, and blockchain-based security mechanisms. The work often explores adversarial threats, resilient control strategies, and data augmentation techniques for improved grid monitoring.
- NSF CAREER Award (2007)
- IET Wireless Sensor Systems Premium Award (2018)
- EURASIP Best Paper Award (2015)
- IEEE Fellow (2019)
- URI College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award (2022)
She actively leads interdisciplinary CYPHER Lab initiatives involving cyber-physical system resilience, network security, and smart grid analysis, collaborating with government and industry partners.
