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Yin Sun

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Godbold Associate Professor

213 Broun Hall

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Education

Ph.D. Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
B.S. Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

Research Interests

Timely information updates
Wireless networks
Wireless communications
Cloud computing
Internet of Things (IoT

In The News

Electrical and computer engineering professor selected as technical co-chair for the Mobile Networks Symposium

Yin Sun, the Godbold associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, has been selected as a technical co-chair at the 26th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (ACM MobiHoc) in Houston in October 2025.

Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center finds solutions to everyday communications problems

Established in 2001 and housed within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the center draws upon the expertise of more than 20 faculty members.

Assistant professor in ECE wins NSF Early Faculty Development CAREER Award

Yin Sun's project, "Semantic and Goal-oriented Status Updating for Real-time Inference, Monitoring, and Decision-Making," finds measures for operators to receive fresh and important, accurate data simultaneously

Researchers use machine learning to assist state food pantries with inventory

Yin Sun, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, is part of a multi-disciplinary team across two universities working to help statewide food distribution centers

Auburn Engineering research duo win Best Paper Award for work on data freshness

Researchers Yin Sun and Benjamin Cyr won the 2021 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Communications and Networks for a paper in which they used non-linear functions of the age of information to measure data freshness.

Auburn professor authors book on Age of Information concept

Yin Sun, an electrical and computer engineering assistant professor, collaborated with a research group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to produce the book, "Age of Information: A New Metric for Information Freshness."