Dr. Hua Sun
University of North Texas
Electrical Engineering
(940) 369-5167
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Education

PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2017.
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Degree Specialization: Information Theory
Dissertation Title: 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

Member, 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, 5 courses.
EENG 2980, Experimental Course, 1 course.
EENG 4510, Digital Communications, 1 course.
EENG 5810, Digital Communications, 10 courses.
EENG 5820, Wireless Communications, 4 courses.
EENG 5890, Directed Study, 11 courses.
EENG 5900, Special Problems, 1 course.
EENG 5932, Internship, 8 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, 9 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 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member,"OTFS," Electrical Engineering. (September 2023 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair,"Information Theoretic Limits of Generic Spaces," Electrical Engineering. (August 2023 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member,"Synthesis and Nanofabrication of Semiconducting WSe2 Devices for Optoelectronics and Gas Sensors," Electrical Engineering. (February 2023 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair,"Information Theoretic Limits of Secure Computation," Electrical Engineering. (January 2023 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair,"Complexity of Information Constrained Convex Optimization," Electrical Engineering. (September 2022 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member,"Sensor Arrays and Energy Harvesting Devices using 2D Materials," Electrical Engineering. (April 2022 – Present).

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,"Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning," Computer Science and Engineering. (June 2022 – December 2022).

Other,"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,"Learning Inspired Optimization Problems," Computer Science and Engineering. (June 2021 – May 2022).

Other,"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,"Drone WiFi Node Network," Electrical Engineering. (February 2020 – December 2020).

Other,"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,"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).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Conference Proceeding
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, ., 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
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 and 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. (October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2027).
Sun, H. (Principal), "CAREER: Fundamental Limits of Cryptographic Primitives Through Network Information Theory," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $426707 Funded. (July 1, 2021 – June 30, 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. (October 1, 2020 – September 30, 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).

Awards and Honors

IEEE Data Storage Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society. (2021 – 2021).

IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society. (December 2016 – December 2016).

IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award, IEEE Information Theory Society. (July 2016 – July 2016).

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).