If I were to capture the essence of my work in a newspaper headline, I’d say…

“I work on network security and privacy with a measurement-oriented and application-driven approach.“

Background

Yixin Sun is an Assistant Professor in CS and ECE at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on network security and privacy. Her works have received real-world deployment by companies such as Let’s Encrypt, been granted a US patent, and was the runner-up for the Casper Bowden Award for privacy-enhancing technologies. Prior to UVA, she received her PhD in CS from Princeton University in 2019, and BA in CS and Math from the University of Virginia in 2013.