Ye Sun

Contact

dzv7sg@virginia.edu
434-243-5140

Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor, Engineering, University of Virginia

PhD, Case Western Reserve University

Biography

Dr. Ye Sun is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Michigan Technological University and an associate professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. She received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2014. Her research is an interdisciplinary resort that integrates engineering innovation with human health and human behaviors. The primary focus is on human-centered smart monitoring technologies that integrate advance sensor technology and decision support to improve healthcare and transportation safety.

Links of Interest

Faculty Webpage

Areas of Expertise

Cyber-Physical System
Human-Machine Interaction
Human Factors in Transportation

Research Interests

Wearable sensors and electronics
Wearable robotics
Internet of things
Human factors

Recent Publications

Li, X. and Sun, Y.* 2019. "An SSHI Rectifier for Triboelectric Energy Harvesting," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, in press and available online, DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2019.2934676. Read More
Huang, H., Hu, S., and Sun, Y.* 2018, "Energy-efficient ECG Signal Compression for User Data Input in Cyber-physical Systems by Leveraging Empirical Mode Decomposition," ACM Transactions on Cyber Physical Systems, in press and available online. DOI:10.1145/3341559
Huang, H., Hu, S., and Sun, Y.* 2018. "A Discrete Curvature Estimation Based Low-distortion Adaptive Savitzky-Golay Filter for ECG Denoising," Sensors, Vol. 19, p. 1617-1635. DOI:.org/10.3390/s19071617
Liu, W., Jia, D., Zhao, J., Zhang, H., Liu, T., Zhang, Y., and Sun, Y. 2018, "An Optical Fiber Based Data-driven Method for Human Skin Temperature 3D Mapping," IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 23, pp.1141-1150. DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2018.2854734
Li, X. and Sun, Y.* 2018, "NCMB-Button: A Wearable Non-contact System for Long-term Multiple Biopotential Monitoring," Elsevier Smart Health Journal, Vol. 11, pp. 2-15. (selected for journal publication from IEEE-CHASE’17) DOI:10.1109/CHASE.2017.118
Huang, H., Li, X., Liu, S., Hu, S., and Sun, Y*. 2017, "TriboMotion: A Self-powered Triboelectric Motion Sensor in Wearable Internet of Things for Human Activity Recognition and Energy Harvesting," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 5, I. 6, Dec. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2018.2817841

Recent Funding

NSF-CAREER-CPS. CAREER: System-on-Cloth: A Cloud Manufacturing Framework for Embroidered Wearable Electronics, 06/01/2018-05/31/2023, $500,000 plus $102,410 MTU cost share, National Science Foundation #1751454, Role: Sole PI.
NSF-TTP.Transition to Practice (TTP) Supplement for CAREER: System-on-Cloth: A Cloud Manufacturing Framework for Embroidered Wearable Electronics, 07/16/2019-05/31/2023, $99,986, National Science Foundation #1941332, Role: Sole PI.
NSF-ECCS.Understanding and Mitigating Triboelectric Artifacts in Wearable Electronics by Synergic Approaches, 09/01/2017-08/31/2020, $330,504, National Science Foundation #1710862, Role: PI.