Prof. Yan (Lindsay) Sun (F'18) received her B.S. degree with the highest honor from Peking University in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland in 2004. She joined the University of Rhode Island in 2004, where she is currently a professor in the department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Sun is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE SPS SigPort (2015-2017), and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. She was an elected member of the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (2014-2016), served on the editorial board of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine (2013-2015), and was an associate editor of Signal Processing Letter (2013-2015). Dr. Sun was the general chair of IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) in 2014. She was the recipient of NSF CAREER Award (2007), for her work on trust management. Dr. Sun recently received EURASIP 2015 Best Paper Award, for the paper entitled "Securing Collaborative Spectrum Sensing against Untrustworthy Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Networks". This is a society-wide award, selected from all journals governed by the European Association for Signal Processing, for proven impact and excellence. She also received the best paper awards at 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications and at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing.

Dr. Sun's research interests include cyber-physical system security, trustworthy social computing, power grid security, and network security. Her research features multidisciplinary security solutions, which combine signal processing, cyber security, and online social media. She also contributes to fundamental theories of trust modeling and management.