Yan Lindsay Sun is a Chinese-American power engineer whose research focuses on cyber-physical systems security and the security of power grids. She is a professor in and chair of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island.[1]

Sun graduated from Peking University in 1988. After completing a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2004,[2] advised by K. J. Ray Liu,[3][4] she joined the University of Rhode Island in the same year.[2]

She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2018, "for contributions to trust modeling and statistical signal processing for cyber-physical security".[3][5] In 2022, the University of Maryland Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering gave her their Distinguished Alumni Award.[6]

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  1. ^ "Full-Time Faculty", Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, retrieved 2024-08-21
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Yan Sun", Toward Future Reliable, Resilient and Secure Electrical Grid, University of Rhode Island, retrieved 2024-08-21
  3. ^ a b Alumnus Yan Sun named IEEE Fellow, University of Maryland Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 29 November 2018, retrieved 2024-08-21
  4. ^ Yan Lindsay Sun at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "URI Engineering Prof. Yan Sun elevated to IEEE fellow", Rhody Today, 13 December 2018, retrieved 2024-08-21
  6. ^ Nachbar, Neil (November 2022), Professor Yan Sun Honored By Her Alma Mater For Career Accomplishments, University of Rhode Island College of Engineering, retrieved 2024-08-21
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