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Dr. Hua Sun

Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Electrical Engineering

(940) 369-5167

Email: Hua.Sun@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2017
    Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Specialization: Information Theory
    Dissertation: Fundamental limits of private information retrieval
  • MS, University of California, Irvine, 2013
    Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • BE, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2011
    Major: Communications Engineering

Professional Memberships

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. (September 01, 2011 - Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • EENG 2610 - Circuit Analysis, 2 courses.
  • EENG 2620 - Signals and Systems, 2 courses.
  • EENG 2621 - Signals and Systems Lab, 6 courses.
  • EENG 2980 - Experimental Course, 1 course.
  • EENG 3920 - Modern Communication System Design Project, 1 course.
  • EENG 4510 - Digital Communications, 1 course.
  • EENG 5810 - Digital Communications, 10 courses.
  • EENG 5820 - Wireless Communications, 4 courses.
  • EENG 5890 - Directed Study, 12 courses.
  • EENG 5900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • EENG 5932 - Internship, 9 courses.
  • EENG 5940 - Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering, 2 courses.
  • EENG 5950 - Master's Thesis, 8 courses.
  • EENG 6900 - Special Problems, 2 courses.
  • EENG 6940 - Individual Research, 10 courses.
  • EENG 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 9 courses.

Directed Student Learning

  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "Quasi-amorphous thin films for renewable energy and gas sensing towards environmental sustainability," Electrical Engineering. (January 2024).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "OTFS," Electrical Engineering. (September 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, "Information Theoretic Limits of Generic Spaces," Electrical Engineering. (August 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "Synthesis and Nanofabrication of Semiconducting WSe2 Devices for Optoelectronics and Gas Sensors," Electrical Engineering. (February 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, "Information Theoretic Limits of Secure Computation," Electrical Engineering. (January 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, "Complexity of Information Constrained Convex Optimization," Electrical Engineering. (September 2022).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "Sensor Arrays and Energy Harvesting Devices using 2D Materials," Electrical Engineering. (April 2022).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, "Conditional Disclosure of Secrets and Storage over Graphs," Electrical Engineering. (January 2019 - October 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, "On the Fundamental Limits of Secure Summation and MDS Variable Generation," Electrical Engineering. (September 2018 - May 2023).
  • Other (Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS)), "Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning," Computer Science and Engineering. (June 2022 - December 2022).
  • Other (Undergraduate Research), "Neural Network Structure and Perfect Hashing," Electrical Engineering. (December 2020 - December 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Distributed Source Coding with LDPC Codes: Algorithms and Applications," Electrical Engineering. (November 2021 - October 2022).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "Occupancy Estimation using Low Resolution Thermal Imaging Sensors," Electrical Engineering. (September 2021 - June 2022).
  • Other (Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS)), "Learning Inspired Optimization Problems," Computer Science and Engineering. (June 2021 - May 2022).
  • Other (Undergraduate Research (Continued to Master)), "Communication and Computation with Port Constraints," Electrical Engineering. (July 2018 - February 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Power Line Interference Artifact Reduction Using CMOS and Analysis of Feature Extraction in Labview," Electrical Engineering. (November 2020 - November 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "HFSS Design AND Simulation of Transmitter and Planar Receiver Using Wilkinson Power Divider," Electrical Engineering. (November 2020 - November 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Analysis on the Integration of LEO Satellite Constellations into 5G Networks," Electrical Engineering. (August 2021 - October 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Air Corridors: Concept, Design, Simulation, and Rules of Engagement," Electrical Engineering. (August 2021 - October 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Group Testing: A Practical Approach," Electrical Engineering. (August 2020 - October 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Group Testing with Greedy Algorithm," Electrical Engineering. (August 2020 - May 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Electrical Equivalent Modeling of the Reverse Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (REWOD) based Transducer along with Highly-Efficient Energy Harvesting Circuit Design Towards Self-Powered Motion Sensor," Electrical Engineering. (August 2020 - April 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Estimation of Drone Location using Received Signal Strength Indicator," Electrical Engineering. (August 2020 - April 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Object detection for aerial view images: dataset and learning rate," Electrical Engineering. (March 2021).
  • Other (Senior Design Advisor), "Drone WiFi Node Network," Electrical Engineering. (February 2020 - December 2020).
  • Other (Senior Design Advisor), "Intelligent Foosball Table," Electrical Engineering. (January 2020 - December 2020).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, "Efficient Linear Secure Computation and Symmetric Private Information Retrieval Protocols," Electrical Engineering. (September 2018 - October 2020).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Interference Alignment Through Propagation Delay," Electrical Engineering. (March 2018 - March 2020).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "Neural Network Approach to Cognitive Knowledge Retrieval for Spectrum Sensing," Electrical Engineering. (October 2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Realization of LSTM-based Cognitive Radio Network using GNU Radio and Python API," Electrical Engineering. (July 2019).
  • Other (Undergraduate Research Fellow), "Communication Efficient Distributed Secure Matrix Computation," Electrical Engineering. (March 2018 - April 2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "The Chief Security Officer Problem," Electrical Engineering. (August 2018).

Awards and Honors

  • IEEE Data Storage Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society. (2021).
  • IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society. (December 2016).
  • IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award, IEEE Information Theory Society. (July 2016).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Conference Proceeding

  • Gholami, A., Wan, K., Jahani-Nezhad, T., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2024). On Multi-Message Private Computation. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 945-950. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10619493
  • Zhang, Z., Liu, J., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2024). On the Optimality of Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys Against User Dropouts and User Collusion. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 2730-2735. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10619337
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Mi, T., Caire, G. (2024). Optimal Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 2736-2741. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10619454
  • Zhang, X., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2023). A Novel Scheme for Cache-Aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval with User-to-User Privacy. 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. 717-723. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10476849
  • Huang, W., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Qiu, R.C., Caire, G. (2023). Fundamental Limits of Distributed Linearly Separable Computation under Cyclic Assignment. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 2296 - 2301. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10206661
  • Wan, K., Yao, Y., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2023). GroupSecAgg: Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys. ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. 3890-3895. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10279171
  • Li, Z., Sun, H. (2023). On Extremal Rates of Storage over Graphs. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 2039 - 2044. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10206619
  • Zhang, Z., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2023). Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys Against User Collusion. 2023 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS). 559-564. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10151414
  • Zhao, Y., Sun, H. (2023). The Optimal Rate of MDS Variable Generation. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 832 - 837. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10206914
  • Li, Z., Zhao, Y., Sun, H. (2023). Weakly Secure Summation with Colluding Users. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 2398 - 2403. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10206930
  • Gholami, A., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2022). Coded Caching With Private Demands and Caches. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1396-1401. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9834846
  • Zhang, X., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2022). Fundamental Limits of Cache-aided Multiuser PIR: The Two-message Two-user Case. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 420-425. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9834425
  • Zhang, X., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2021). A New Design of Cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval with Uncoded Prefetching. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1766-1771. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9518072
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Tuninetti, D., Caire, G. (2021). Cache-Aided Matrix Multiplication Retrieval. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 2810-2815. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9518042
  • Sun, H. (2021). Compound Secure Groupcast: Key Assignment for Selected Broadcasting. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 694-699. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9518149
  • Zhao, Y., Sun, H. (2021). Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with User Dropouts. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1124-1129. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9517953
  • Li, Z., Sun, H. (2021). On the Linear Capacity of Conditional Disclosure of Secrets. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 3202-3207. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9517867
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2021). Secure Distributed Linearly Separable Computation. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 2149-2154. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9517896
  • Zhou, R., Tian, C., Sun, H., Plank, J.S. (2021). Two-Level Private Information Retrieval. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1919-1924. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9518167
  • Zhang, X., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M. (2020). Cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1095-1100. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9174083
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Tuninetti, D., Caire, G. (2020). Cache-Aided Scalar Linear Function Retrieval. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1717-1722. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9173997
  • Li, Z., Sun, H. (2020). Conditional Disclosure of Secrets: A Noise and Signal Alignment Approach. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 944-948. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9174262
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Tuninetti, D., Caire, G. (2020). Device-to-Device Private Caching with Trusted Server. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 1-6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9149038
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Tuninetti, D., Caire, G. (2020). Novel Converse for Device-to-Device Demand-Private Caching with a Trusted Server. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1705-1710. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9174279
  • Zhang, X., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2020). Private Cache-aided Interference Alignment for Multiuser Private Information Retrieval. 2020 18th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOPT). 1-8. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9155254
  • Zhou, Y., Wang, Q., Sun, H., Fu, S. (2020). The Minimum Upload Cost of Symmetric Private Information Retrieval. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1030-1034. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9174274
  • Mosquera, F., Gulur, N., Kavi, K.M., Mehta, G., Sun, H. (2020). CHASM: Security Evaluation of Cache Mapping Schemes. International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation.
  • Zhou, R., Tian, C., Liu, T., Sun, H. (2019). Capacity-Achieving Private Information Retrieval Codes from MDS-Coded Databases with Minimum Message Size. 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 370--374. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8849542
  • Tian, C., Sun, H., Chen, J. (2019). Capacity-Achieving Private Information Retrieval Codes with Optimal Message Size and Upload Cost. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 1--6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8761802
  • Zhou, Y., Sun, H., Fu, S. (2019). On the Randomness Cost of Linear Secure Computation. 2019 53rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS). 1--6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8692860
  • Yi, X., Sun, H. (2019). Opportunistic Topological Interference Management. 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1287--1291. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8849458
  • Sun, H. (2019). Private Information Delivery. 2019 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW). 1-5. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8989217
  • Wang, Q., Sun, H., Skoglund, M. (2019). Symmetric Private Information Retrieval with Mismatched Coded Messages and Randomness. 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 365--369. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8849351
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2019). The Capacity of Linear Computation Broadcast. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 1--6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8761676
  • Tian, C., Sun, H., Chen, J. (2018). A Shannon-Theoretic Approach to the Storage-Retrieval Tradeoff in PIR Systems. 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1904--1908. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8437874/
  • Wang, Q., Sun, H., Skoglund, M. (2018). The $\epsilon$-error Capacity of Symmetric PIR with Byzantine Adversaries. 2018 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW). 1--5. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8613332
  • Sun, H. (2018). The Capacity of Anonymous Communications. 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 751--755. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8437850/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2018). The Capacity of Private Computation. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 1--6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8422963/
  • Wang, Q., Sun, H., Skoglund, M. (2018). The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval with Eavesdroppers. 2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. 1679--1683. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8645154
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2017). Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data with Colluding Servers: Settling a Conjecture by Freij-Hollanti et al. 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1893–1897. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8006858/
  • Jia, Z., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2017). The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval with Disjoint Colluding Sets. GLOBECOM 2017-2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference. 1--6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8254170/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2016). Blind Interference Alignment for Private Information Retrieval. 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 560–564. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7541361/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2016). The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval. 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 1–6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7842315/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2016). The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval with Colluding Databases. 2016 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP). 941–946. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7905981/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2016). The Capacity of Symmetric Private Information Retrieval. 2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). 1–5. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7849060/
  • Yuan, B., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2015). On the Optimality of" Half the Cake" for K-User Rank-Deficient Mk x Mk Interference Channel. 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 1–5. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7417087/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2015). On the Separability of GDoF Region for Parallel Gaussian TIN Optimal Interference Networks. 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1054–1058. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7282616/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2014). On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise for Parallel Deterministic Interference Networks. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 841–845. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6874951/
  • Geng, C., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2014). On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise: General Message Sets. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT). 1777–1781. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6875139/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2014). Topological Interference Management with Multiple Antennas. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). 1767–1771. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6875137/
  • Geng, C., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2013). Multilevel Topological Interference Management. 2013 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW). 1–5. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6691291/
  • Sun, H., Geng, C., Jafar, S.A. (2013). Topological Interference Management with Alternating Connectivity. 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT). 399–403. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6620256/
  • Sun, H., Geng, C., Gou, T., Jafar, S.A. (2012). Degrees of Freedom of MIMO X Networks: Spatial Scale Invariance, One-sided Decomposability and Linear Feasibility. 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT). 2082–2086. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6283728/
  • Wang, C., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2012). Genie Chains and the Degrees of Freedom of the K-user MIMO Interference Channel. 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT). 2476–2480. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6283961/
  • Yang, Y., Zhao, H., Sun, C., Sun, H., Wang, W. (2011). Distributed Beamforming with Relay-aided Interference Alignment in Fully Connected Interference Network. 2011 IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops (GC Wkshps). 1347–1352. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6162406/

    • Journal Article

  • Gholami, A., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2024). Coded Caching With Private Demands and Caches. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70 (2) 1087-1106. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10332248
  • Li, Z., Sun, H. (2024). On Extremal Rates of Storage Over Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70 (4) 2464-2478. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10299679
  • Wan, K., Yao, X., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2024). On the Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation With Uncoded Groupwise Keys. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70 (9) 6596-6619. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10580953
  • Zhao, Y., Sun, H. (2024). Secure Summation: Capacity Region, Groupwise Key, and Feasibility. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70 (2) 1376-1387. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10359136
  • Tian, C., Sun, H., Chen, J. (2023). A Shannon-Theoretic Approach to the Storage–Retrieval Trade-Off in PIR Systems. Information. 14 (1) 14. MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/14/1/44
  • Li, Z., Sun, H. (2023). On Extremal Rates of Secure Storage Over Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 18 4721-4731. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10194964
  • Li, Z., Sun, H. (2023). On the Linear Capacity of Conditional Disclosure of Secrets. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 71 (12) 7218-7227. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10258335
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Tuninetti, D., Caire, G. (2022). Cache-Aided Matrix Multiplication Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 68 (7) 4301-4319. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9730908
  • Sun, H. (2022). Compound Secure Groupcast: Key Assignment for Selected Broadcasting. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. 3 (2) 379-389. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9790842
  • Li, Z., Sun, H. (2022). Conditional Disclosure of Secrets: A Noise and Signal Alignment Approach. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 70 (6) 4052-4062. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9759301
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2022). Distributed Linearly Separable Computation. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 68 (2) 1259-1278. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9614153
  • Zhao, Y., Sun, H. (2022). Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with User Dropouts. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 68 (11) 7471-7484. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9834981
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2022). On Secure Distributed Linearly Separable Computation. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 40 (3) 912-926. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9678313
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Tuninetti, D., Caire, G. (2022). On the Fundamental Limits of Device-to-Device Private Caching Under Uncoded Cache Placement and User Collusion. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 68 (9) 5701-5729. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9770800
  • Sun, H. (2022). Secure Groupcast with Shared Keys. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 68 (7) 4681-4699. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9737507
  • Zhou, R., Tian, C., Sun, H., Plank, J. (2022). Two-Level Private Information Retrieval. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. 3 (2) 337-349. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9790846
  • Zhao, Y., Sun, H. (2021). Expand-and-Randomize: An Algebraic Approach to Secure Computation. Entropy. 23 (11) 1461. MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/11/1461
  • Geng, C., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2021). Multilevel Topological Interference Management: A TIM-TIN Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 69 (11) 7350-7362. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9507346
  • Zhang, X., Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2021). On the Fundamental Limits of Cache-Aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 69 (9) 5828-5842. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9462140
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Tuninetti, D., Caire, G. (2021). On the Optimal Load-Memory Tradeoff of Cache-Aided Scalar Linear Function Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 67 (6) 4001-4018. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9378566
  • Wan, K., Sun, H., Ji, M., Caire, G. (2021). On the Tradeoff Between Computation and Communication Costs for Distributed Linearly Separable Computation. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 69 (11) 7390-7405. IEEE, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9521491
  • Du , J., Preston, S., Sun, H., Shegog, R., Cunningham, R., Boom, J., Savas, L., Amith, M., Tao, C. (2021). Using Machine Learning-Based Approaches for the Detection and Classification of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Misinformation: Infodemiology Study of Reddit Discussions.. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23 (8) e26478.
  • Zhou, R., Tian, C., Sun, H., Liu, T. (2020). Capacity-Achieving Private Information Retrieval Codes From MDS-Coded Databases With Minimum Message Size. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 66 (8) 4904-4916. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9018010
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2020). On the Capacity of Locally Decodable Codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 66 (10) 6566-6579. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9162130
  • Yi, X., Sun, H. (2020). Opportunistic Topological Interference Management. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 68 (1) 521-535. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8878131
  • Yi, X., Sun, H. (2020). Opportunistic Treating Interference as Noise. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 66 (1) 520-533. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8811604
  • Sun, H. (2020). Private Information Delivery. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 66 (12) 7672-7683. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9165216
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2020). On the Capacity of Computation Broadcast. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 66 (6) 3417-3434. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8933034
  • Sun, H., Tian, C. (2019). Breaking the MDS-PIR Capacity Barrier via Joint Storage Coding. Information. 10 (9) 16. MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/10/9/265
  • Tian, C., Sun, H., Chen, J. (2019). Capacity-Achieving Private Information Retrieval Codes with Optimal Message Size and Upload Cost. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65 (11) 7613-7627. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8720234
  • Jia, Z., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2019). Cross Subspace Alignment and the Asymptotic Capacity of X-Secure T-Private Information Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65 (9) 5783-5798. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8712409
  • Sun, H. (2019). The Capacity of Anonymous Communications. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65 (6) 3871--3879. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8528492
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2019). The Capacity of Private Computation. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65 (6) 3880--3897. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8580554
  • Wang, Q., Sun, H., Skoglund, M. (2019). The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval with Eavesdroppers. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65 (5) 3198--3214. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8558509
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2019). The Capacity of Symmetric Private Information Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65 (1) 322--329. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8388267
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2018). Multiround Private Information Retrieval: Capacity and Storage Overhead. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 64 (8) 5743--5754. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8246575/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2018). Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data With Colluding Servers: Settling a Conjecture by Freij-Hollanti et al.. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 64 (2) 1000--1022. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8126852/
  • Yi, X., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A., Gesbert, D. (2018). TDMA is Optimal for All-Unicast DoF Region of TIM if and only if Topology is Chordal Bipartite. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 64 (3) 2065--2076. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8263176/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2018). The Capacity of Robust Private Information Retrieval with Colluding Databases. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 64 (4) 2361--2370. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8119895/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2017). Optimal Download Cost of Private Information Retrieval for Arbitrary Message Length. Other. 12 (12) 2920--2932. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7972899/
  • Yuan, B., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2017). Replication-based Outer bounds and the Optimality of “Half the Cake” for Rank-Deficient MIMO Interference Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 63 (10) 6607-6621. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7983397/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2017). The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 63 (7) 4075--4088. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7889028/
  • Wang, C., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2016). Genie Chains: Exploring Outer Bounds on the Degrees of Freedom of MIMO Interference Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 62 (10) 5573–5602. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7542164/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2016). On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise for K-User Parallel Gaussian Interference Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 62 (4) 1911–1930. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7422814/
  • Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2015). Index Coding Capacity: How Far Can One Go with Only Shannon Inequalities?. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 61 (6) 3041–3055. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7080889/
  • Geng, C., Sun, H., Jafar, S.A. (2015). On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise: General Message Sets. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 61 (7) 3722–3736. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7106540/
  • Sun, H., Krishnamurthy, S.R., Jafar, S.A. (2015). Rank Matching for Multihop Multiflow. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 61 (9) 4751–4764. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7134759/
  • Sun, H., Gou, T., Jafar, S.A. (2013). Degrees of Freedom of MIMO X Networks: Spatial Scale Invariance and One-Sided Decomposability. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 59 (12) 8377–8385. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6587510/

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Sun, H. (Principal), "Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: Fundamental Limits of Cache-aided Multi-user Private Function Retrieval," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $365166 Funded. (2023 - 2027).
  • Sun, H. (Principal), "CAREER: Fundamental Limits of Cryptographic Primitives Through Network Information Theory," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $426707 Funded. (2021 - 2026).
  • Sun, H. (Principal), "Collaborative Research: CIF: Small: Communication, Storage, Complexity, and Security: A Holistic View on the Fundamental Limits and Code Designs for Private Information Retrieval," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $218259 Funded. (2020 - 2023).
  • Sun, H., "An Information Theoretic Approach to Big-Data Privacy," sponsored by Office for Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2019 - 2021).
  • Sun, H. (Principal), "CAREER: Fundamental Limits of Cryptographic Primitives Through Network Information Theory," sponsored by National Science Foundation, FED, Funded. (2021 - 2026).
  • Sun, H. (Principal), "Collaborative Research: CIF: Small: Communication, Storage, Complexity, and Security: A Holistic View on the Fundamental Limits and Code Designs for Private Information Retrieval," sponsored by National Science Foundation, FED, Funded. (2020 - 2023).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Chair, Graduate Program Committee. (July 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Grade Appeal Committee. (October 2020 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Electrical Engineering Department Webpage Committee. (September 2017 - Present).
  • Committee Member, EE Scholarship Committee. (September 2019 - August 2020).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Program Committee. (September 2017 - August 2019).

Professional Service

  • Committee Member, IEEE Global Communications Conference. (October 2021 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT). (2019 - Present).
  • Committee Member, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW). (2019 - Present).
  • Committee Member, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). (February 2018 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. (January 2017 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. (January 2017 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactons on Communications. (January 2017 - Present).