Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Auburn University
200 Broun Hall
341 War Eagle Way
Auburn, AL 36849-5201, USA
Email:
yzs0078 at auburn dot edu
Office:
213 Broun Hall
Tel:
+1-334-844-1867
Fax:
+1-334-844-1809
Openings:
Ph.D Students:
Prof. Yin Sun's research group has several PhD positions in the areas of Machine Learning and Networked Intelligent Systems. Here is a FLYER of the positions. Dr. Sun's accomplishments are listed
HERE.
If you are interested, please send me your CV, GPA, Transcript, and other graduate application documents.
Undergraduate Students:
Prof. Yin Sun's research group has 2 - 4 positions that provide Research Experience to Undergraduate Students. If you are interested, please send me your CV, GPA, and Transcript.
Bio:
Yin Sun is the Bryghte D. and Patricia M. Godbold Endowed Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama. He received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, in 2006 and 2011,
respectively. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University from 2017-2023 and a Postdoctoral Scholar and Research Associate at the Ohio State University from 2011-2017. His research interests include Wireless Networks, Machine Learning,
Semantic Communications, Age of Information, Information Theory, and Robotic Control. He is also interested in applying AI and Machine Learning techniques in Agricultural, Food, and Animal Sciences.
He has served as an Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, the Journal of Communications and Networks, and the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications for the special issue on "Age of Information in Real-time Systems and Networks," a Guest Editor of Entropy for the special issue on
"Age of Information: Concept, Metric and Tool for Network Control," a Guest Editor of Frontiers in Communications and Networks for the special issue on "Age of Information," a Guest Editor of the
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory for the special issue on "The Role of Freshness and Semantic Measures in the Transmission of Information for Next Generation Networks," and a Guest Editor of the
Journal of Communications and Networks for the special issue on "Age and Semantics of Information."
He has served in the organizing committees of ACM MobiHoc 2019, 2021-2023, IEEE INFOCOM 2020-2021, IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2020, IEEE WCNC 2021, IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2024, and International Teletraffic Congress 2022 (ITC 34).
He founded the Age of Information (AoI) Workshop in 2018 and the Modeling and Optimization in Semantic Communications (MOSC) Workshop in 2023.
His articles received the Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2013, Best Paper Award of the IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2019, runner-up for the Best Paper Award of ACM MobiHoc 2020,
and 2021 Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN) Best Paper Award. He co-authored a monograph
Age of Information: A New Metric for Information Freshness, published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers in 2019. He received the Auburn Author Award of 2020, the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2023,
the Bryghte D. and Patricia M. Godbold Endowed Professorship in 2023, the Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellowship in 2023, and the College of Engineering's Research Award for Excellence (Senior Faculty) in 2024.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ACM. His research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office,
the Office of Naval Research, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Optimal Pilot Scheduling for Throughput Maximization over Wireless Channels: A Battle with Non-Monotonic Information Aging [poster]
Status Updates with Priorities: Lexicographic Optimality, Talk slides at ITA 2020 [slides]
Age of Information: Providing Fresh Data to Real-time Applications, Tutorial lecture at IEEE PIMRC 2019 (Part I) [slides]
News:
[June 2026] The 3rd WiOpt Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC) will be held on June 6, 2026 in Columbus, OH, USA. The general chairs are Yu Cheng and Yin Sun. The Technical Program Co-chairs are Fabio Busacca, Andrea Panebianco, and Howard Hao Yang.
[May 2026] The 8th INFOCOM Age and Semantic of Information Workshop will be held on May 18, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan. The general chairs are Wei Chen and Chih-Chun Wang. The TPC chairs are Yoshiaki Inoue and Igor Kadota.
[October 2025] Prof. Yin Sun received a grant from the Alabama Research and Development Enhancement Fund (ARDEF) program. [News]
[October 2025] Prof. Yin Sun will serve as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair for ACM MobiHoc 2025, which will take place at Rice University in Houston, TX, during October 27-30, 2025.
[September 2025] Our paper "MAPPO for edge server monitoring" has been accepted by the IEEE MILCOM Distributed AI/ML at the Resource-Constrained Edge Workshop 2025.
The 8th IEEE INFOCOM Age and Semantics of Information Workshop will be held on May 19, 2025 in London, United Kingdom. The general chairs are Clement Kam and Marios Kountouris. The TPC chairs are He (Henry) Chen and Sanjit K. Kaul. The Publicity/Web Chair is Michael Lipski.
[April 2025] Seven groups of students from Auburn University and Tuskegee University presented posters on their projects for the “Applied Statistics and Machine Learning” course. The project topics included:
Explainable Deep Learning for Meat Freshness Detection Using ResNet50 and SHAP
AI-Based Phenotyping and Crop Health Assessment from High-Resolution Drone Imagery
High-Accuracy Bacteria Detection, Segmentation, and Classification with YOLO and U-Net
Real-Time Object Detection and Tracking for Public Spaces and Sports Using YOLOv12 and DeepSORT [video]
Evaluating Diffusion-Based Synthetic Image Generation for MNIST Classification
Analyzing Online Public Sentiment Toward AI Using NLP and Multinomial Regression
Deploying Lightweight Machine Learning Apps for Mobile-Based Disease Diagnosis and OCR
[April 2025] Prof. Yin Sun will deliver a keynote speech at WiOpt 2025, a premier conference focused on the theory and modeling of wireless networks.