Dr. Sun received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in January 2016. He is currently a tenure-track assistant professor after joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama in August 2019. From 2016-2019, he was with the radar core team of Aptiv, Technical Center Malibu, California, where he has worked on advanced radar signal processing and machine learning algorithms for self-driving vehicles and lead the development of direction-of-arrival estimation techniques for next-generation short-range radar sensor which has been used in over 120-million automotive radar units. His research interests lie at the interface of statistical and sparse signal processing with mathematical optimizations, automotive radar, MIMO radar, machine learning, and smart sensing for autonomous vehicles.

Dr. Sun received the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2024) and CRII Award (2022). He received the 2016 IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS) Robert T. Hill Best Dissertation Award for his thesis “MIMO radar with Sparse Sensing”. He authored a paper that won the Best Student Paper Award at 2020 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM). He is an elected member of IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee (2024-2026), and an elected member of IEEE SPS Integrated Sensing and Communication Technical Working Group (2025-2027). He is Vice Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Autonomous Systems Initiative (ASI) (2023-2025). He has co-organized the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Workshop on Signal Processing for Autonomous Systems (SPAS) at International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023 in Rhodes, Greece, ICASSP 2024 in Seoul, Korea, and European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2025 in Palermo, Italy, respectively. He has co-organized 15 special/focused sessions on automotive radar signal processing, machine learning and sparse arrays at IEEE SPS and AESS flagship conferences. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Signal Processing Letters and IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.