Scholar
Kun Sun
Google Scholar ID: u18hG4gAAAAJ
George Mason University
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,742
H-index
36
i10-index
86
Publications
20
Co-authors
30
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Contact
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Winner of the Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Research from George Mason University in 2022; Distinguished Paper Awards in NDSS 2024 and NDSS 2025; multiple papers accepted or published in IEEE SecDev 2025, ACM AsiaCCS 2025, ACM CCS 2025, etc.; released a large-scale security patch dataset called PatchDB
Research Experience
- Associate Director of the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) at George Mason University, Director of Sun Security Laboratory (SunLab); Principal Investigator for NSF’s CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University
Background
- Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Software Security, AI Security, Confidential Computing; Professional Field: Information Sciences and Technology; Brief Introduction: Professor at George Mason University with over 20 years of experience in both industry and academia.
Miscellany
- Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committees (TPCs) of several top conferences such as ACSAC 2025, NDSS 2026, S&P 2025, etc.
