Dr. Wenhai Sun is an Associate Professor and the University Faculty Scholar in the School of Applied and Creative Computing. 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. He won the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM ASIACCS 2013. Dr. Sun is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. 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.
