Directory profile for Dr. Shunqiao Sun

Shunqiao Sun received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in January 2016. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama, where he joined in August 2019. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Radar Signal Processing Engineer with Aptiv, Technical Center Malibu, Agoura Hills, CA, USA, where he worked on advanced radar signal processing and machine learning algorithms for self-driving vehicles and led the development of direction-of-arrival estimation techniques for next-generation short-range radar sensors deployed in more than 120 million production vehicles. His research lies at the intersection of RF sensing systems, applied electromagnetics, array and statistical signal processing, and physics-guided machine learning, with applications to automotive radar, MIMO radar, autonomous systems, and resilient perception in complex environments.

Dr. Sun received the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2024 and the NSF CRII Award in 2022. He received the 2016 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Robert T. Hill Best Dissertation Award for his dissertation “MIMO Radar with Sparse Sensing,” and coauthored a paper that received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2020 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM). He is currently Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Autonomous Systems Initiative (ASI) for 2026–2027, after serving as Vice Chair from 2023 to 2025. He is an elected member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (2024–2026) and the IEEE SPS Integrated Sensing and Communication Technical Working Group (2025–2027). He has co-organized the Signal Processing for Autonomous Systems (SPAS) workshops at ICASSP 2023, ICASSP 2024, and EUSIPCO 2025, as well as numerous special sessions on automotive radar signal processing, machine learning, and sparse arrays at IEEE SPS and AESS flagship conferences. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.