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Yin Sun

Bryghte D. and Patricia M. Godbold Endowed Associate Professor
Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellow
Co-founder, Age and Semantics of Information Workshop
Co-founder, Modeling and Optimization in Semantic Communications Workshop
Editor, Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN)
Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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.

Information for students interested in Machine Learning:
You can use ChatGPT to write Machine Learning code and find tutorials (notebooks), datasets, and pretrained models on roboflow and Kaggle. In addition, here are a few Introductory Online Courses for Machine Learning:
Introduction to Python
Computer Vision (YOLO)
Machine Learning Specialization
Machine Learning A-Z
Generative AI with Large Language Models

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.

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Google Scholar: https://bit.ly/3kDmyVF

Curriculum Vitae: [pdf]

Tutorial, Talk, and Poster:
  1. Demand Forecasting at Alabama Food Pantries Using Machine Learning Methods [slides]
  2. How Does Data Freshness Affect Real-time Supervised Learning? [poster]
  3. Optimal Pilot Scheduling for Throughput Maximization over Wireless Channels: A Battle with Non-Monotonic Information Aging [poster]
  4. Status Updates with Priorities: Lexicographic Optimality, Talk slides at ITA 2020 [slides]
  5. Age of Information: Providing Fresh Data to Real-time Applications, Tutorial lecture at IEEE PIMRC 2019 (Part I) [slides]

News:

  1. [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.

  2. [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.

  3. [February 2026] Our paper "Deep Learning-Based Meat Freshness Detection with Segmentation and OOD-Aware Classification" has been accepted by the IEEE ACCESS 2026.

  4. [February 2026] Our research group received a donation of an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU and an DGX Spark from NVIDIA.

  5. [December 2025] Our paper "Adaptive Underwater Acoustic Communications with Limited Feedback: An AoI-Aware Hierarchical Bandit Approach" has been accepted by the IEEE Globecom Conference 2025.

  6. [October 2025] Prof. Yin Sun received a grant from the Alabama Research and Development Enhancement Fund (ARDEF) program. [News]

  7. [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.

  8. [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.

  9. [September 2025] Our paper "Edge Server Monitoring for Job Assignment" has been accepted by the IEEE MILCOM Conference 2025.

  10. [September 2025] Our paper "Timely Communications for Remote Inference" received the 2025 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize. [News]

  11. [July 2025] Our paper "Safe and Reliable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Covert Routing" has been accepted by the IEEE Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) 2025.

  12. [July 2025] Our paper "Data-Driven Food Demand Forecasting for Food Pantries in Alabama" has been submitted.

  13. [July 2025] Our paper "Multimodal Remote Inference" has been accepted by the IEEE Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) 2025.

  14. [July 2025] Our paper "Computation and Communication Co-scheduling for Multi-Task Remote Inference" has been submitted to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN).

  15. [July 2025] Our paper "Remote Safety Monitoring: Significance-Aware Status Updating for Situational Awareness" has been submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

  16. 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.

  17. [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:
    1. Explainable Deep Learning for Meat Freshness Detection Using ResNet50 and SHAP
    2. AI-Based Phenotyping and Crop Health Assessment from High-Resolution Drone Imagery
    3. High-Accuracy Bacteria Detection, Segmentation, and Classification with YOLO and U-Net
    4. Real-Time Object Detection and Tracking for Public Spaces and Sports Using YOLOv12 and DeepSORT [video]
    5. Evaluating Diffusion-Based Synthetic Image Generation for MNIST Classification
    6. Analyzing Online Public Sentiment Toward AI Using NLP and Multinomial Regression
    7. Deploying Lightweight Machine Learning Apps for Mobile-Based Disease Diagnosis and OCR

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  18. [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.

  19. [April 2025] Our paper "Learning-augmented Online Minimization of Age of Information and Transmission Costs" has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

  20. [February 2025] Our paper "Send Pilot or Data? Leveraging Age of Channel State Information for Throughput Maximization" has been accepted by the IEEE INFOCOM Age and Semantics of Information (ASoI) Workshop 2025.

  21. [February 2025] Our paper "Goal-Oriented Status Updating for Real-time Remote Inference over Networks with Two-Way Delay" has been submitted to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN).

  22. [January 2025] Prof. Yin Sun will serve as an Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

  23. [January 2025] Prof. Yin Sun will serve as a TPC member of the IEEE INFOCOM Age and Semantics of Information Workshop in 2025.

  24. [January 2025] Our paper "Computation and Communication Co-scheduling for Timely Multi-Task Inference at the Wireless Edge" has been accepted by the IEEE INFOCOM 2025.