Dr. Wenhai Sun is an Associate Professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing (SACC). He is the University Faculty Scholar and serves as the Chair of the Cybersecurity Program in SACC. He is also a faculty member affiliated with the Applied AI Research Center (AARC), the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), the Institute of Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON), and the Integrated Cybersecurity (InCy) Center of Purdue University. He holds two Ph.D. degrees in computer science and cryptography. He studies security and privacy issues in broad systems and applications, such as AI, cloud, blockchain, and cyber-physical systems. He is particularly interested in AI for privacy and currently investigates how privacy-enhancing technology, such as differential privacy, can be abused to cause unexpected harm to the underlying applications, systems, and participants, and how to mitigate these emerging threats without sacrificing privacy and utility by leveraging AI/ML and provable algorithm design. Dr. Sun 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 has been serving the TPC of IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, IJCAI, ESORICS, ACM CODASPY, etc. Dr. Sun is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2023), Outstanding Faculty Award in Discovery (2024) and Employee Recognition Award (2024) in the Department of Computer and Information Technology, Distinguished TPC Member (IJCAI 2023 and INFOCOM 2023), Pratt Fellowship (2017), Distinguished Paper Award (ASIACCS 2013), etc. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security. Dr. Sun is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM and AAAS.
