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Overview

Zhi Sun is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, ocean engineering, artificial intelligence, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging. Their research output includes publications in various specialized areas such as underwater vehicles and communication systems, advanced wireless communication technologies, antenna design and analysis, energy harvesting in wireless networks, advanced MIMO systems optimization, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, and wireless signal modulation classification.

The scientist has published research in a variety of venues, frequently appearing in:

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Zhi Sun has collaborated often with co-authors including Pu Wang, Long Jiang Zhang, Xu Shi, Jintao Wang, and Zhong Zheng. These collaborations suggest a network of research activities across multiple related specialties within engineering and wireless communications.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhi Sun are:

  • "A deep learning approach to characterize 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia in chest CT images," 2020, European Radiology
  • "Risk factors for adverse clinical outcomes with COVID-19 in China: a multicenter, retrospective, observational study," 2020, Theranostics
  • "Psychological morbidities and fatigue in patients with confirmed COVID-19 during disease outbreak: prevalence and associated biopsychosocial risk factors," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Who Is in Control? Practical Physical Layer Attack and Defense for mmWave-Based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • "UAV-Assisted Emergency Communications in Social IoT: A Dynamic Hypergraph Coloring Approach," 2020, IEEE Internet of Things Journal

They have produced a book titled Magnetic Communications, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Magnetic Induction Communications for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

    Zhi Sun;Ian F Akyildiz

  • Full length article: Signal propagation techniques for wireless underground communication networks

    Ian F. Akyildiz;Zhi Sun;Mehmet C. Vuran

  • BorderSense: Border patrol through advanced wireless sensor networks

    Zhi Sun;Pu Wang;Mehmet C. Vuran;Mznah A. Al-Rodhaan

  • Enabling Indoor Mobile Millimeter-wave Networks Based on Smart Reflect-arrays

    Xin Tan;Zhi Sun;Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Josep M. Jornet

  • MISE-PIPE: Magnetic induction-based wireless sensor networks for underground pipeline monitoring

    Zhi Sun;Pu Wang;Mehmet C. Vuran;Mznah A. Al-Rodhaan

  • Channel modeling and analysis for wireless networks in underground mines and road tunnels

    Zhi Sun;Ian F Akyildiz

  • Increasing indoor spectrum sharing capacity using smart reflect-array

    Xin Tan;Zhi Sun;Josep M. Jornet;Dimitris Pados

  • Realizing underwater communication through magnetic induction

    Ian F. Akyildiz;Pu Wang;Zhi Sun

  • Wireless Physical-Layer Identification: Modeling and Validation

    Wenhao Wang;Zhi Sun;Sixu Piao;Bocheng Zhu

  • Towards 3D human pose construction using wifi

    Wenjun Jiang;Hongfei Xue;Chenglin Miao;Shiyang Wang

  • Physical Layer Security for the Internet of Things: Authentication and Key Generation

    Junqing Zhang;Sekhar Rajendran;Zhi Sun;Roger Woods

  • Underground Wireless Communication Using Magnetic Induction

    Z. Sun;I. F. Akyildiz

  • Hierarchical NiS@CoS with Controllable Core‐Shell Structure by Two‐Step Strategy for Supercapacitor Electrodes

    Yidong Miao;Xuping Zhang;Jiang Zhan;Yanwei Sui

  • Wireless Underground Sensor Networks: MI-based communication systems for underground applications.

    Xin Tan;Zhi Sun;Ian F. Akyildiz

  • X60: A Programmable Testbed for Wideband 60 GHz WLANs with Phased Arrays

    Swetank Kumar Saha;Yasaman Ghasempour;Muhammad Kumail Haider;Tariq Siddiqui

  • Hierarchical Ni-Co layered double hydroxide nanosheets on functionalized 3D-RGO films for high energy density asymmetric supercapacitor

    Liyang Jiang;Yanwei Sui;Jiqiu Qi;Yuan Chang

  • Dynamic Connectivity in Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

    Zhi Sun;I. F. Akyildiz;G. P. Hancke

  • X60: A Programmable Testbed for Wideband 60 GHz WLANs with Phased Arrays

    Swetank Kumar Saha;Yasaman Ghasempour;Muhammad Kumail Haider;Tariq Siddiqui

  • Detection of weak maneuvering target based on keystone transform and matched filtering process

    Zhi Sun;Xiaolong Li;Wei Yi;Guolong Cui

  • Increasing the Capacity of Magnetic Induction Communications in RF-Challenged Environments

    Zhi Sun;Ian F. Akyildiz;Steven Kisseleff;Wolfgang Gerstacker

  • STGRFT for Detection of Maneuvering Weak Target With Multiple Motion Models

    Xiaolong Li;Zhi Sun;Tat Soon Yeo;Tianxian Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian F. Akyildiz
Ian F. Akyildiz Technology Innovation Institute
Josep Miquel Jornet
Josep Miquel Jornet Northeastern University
Lingjiang Kong
Lingjiang Kong University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas Northeastern University
Qiaoqiang Gan
Qiaoqiang Gan King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mehmet C. Vuran
Mehmet C. Vuran University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Hongwei Liu
Hongwei Liu Xidian University

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