Dr. Wenhai Sun is an Associate Professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing and a faculty member affiliated with the Applied AI Research Center (AARC), the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), and the Institute of Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON) of Purdue University. He holds two Ph.D. degrees in computer science and cryptography. He studied security and privacy issues in broad networked systems, such as cloud, blockchain, and cyber-physical systems. He is currently focused on investigating the security implications of adopting differential privacy in the real world. He is particularly interested in how privacy-enhancing technology may be abused to cause unexpected harm to the underlying applications, systems, and participants, and how to mitigate these emerging threats by leveraging provable algorithm design and AI/ML. He has published papers in top security, AI, and networking conferences and prestigious journals, such as USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM CCS, NeurIPS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TPDS, and IEEE TSC. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. He won the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM ASIACCS 2013. Dr. Sun is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM and AAAS.
