Xiaoyan (Sherry) Sun

Xiaoyan (Sherry) Sun

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Email: xsun7 AT wpi.edu · Office: Fuller Labs 306

Community and Professional Services

  1. Sponsorship Co-chair for ACM CCS 2026
  2. Poster/Demo Co-chair for ACM CCS 2025, ACM CCS 2024
  3. NSF panelist, 2024, 2021, 2019
  4. ARO proposal reviewer, 2023
  5. Program Committee Co-chair for SVCC 2022
  6. Publicity Co-chair for ACM CCS 2020
  7. Symposium Chair for International Conference on Computing, Networking and communications (ICNC) 2019
  8. Program Committee, SecureComm 2026
  9. Program Committee, ACSAC 2025, ACSAC 2024, ACSAC 2023, ACSAC 2021, ACSAC 2020, ACSAC 2019
  10. Program Committee, ICDF2C 2024
  11. Program Committee, NESD 2024
  12. Program Committee, MILCOM 2021
  13. Program Committee, International Workshop on Cyber Security and Data Privacy (CSDP), 2020
  14. Artifacts Evaluation Program Subcommittee for ACSAC 2019
  15. Program Committee, fourth international Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec'17)
  16. Book Proposal Reviewer for Cambridge University Press
  17. Subject-matter Expert for State of California Cybersecurity Education Summit, 2019, 2018, 2017
  18. Reviewer
    • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)
    • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
    • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
    • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
    • IEEE Internet of Things journal
    • Springer Cybersecurity Journal
    • Journal of Computer Security (JCS)
    • Security and Safety
    • Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISAS)
    • Computers & Security (COSE) journal
    • IEEE Systems journal
    • 19th International Conference on Information and Systems Security (ICISS)
    • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
    • ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY)
    • EAI Transactions on Security and Safety
    • Computer & Security Journal
    • International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) 2015
    • IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2015
    • IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security(QRS) 2015
    • ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2013 and 2011
    • International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (INSCRYPT) 2013
    • Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) 2012
    • IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSEC) 2012

University Services

  1. MS-SEC program admission, WPI.
  2. CS Graduate Committee, WPI.
  3. Program Coordinator, Sac State Computer Engineering Program, 2022-2023
  4. Sac State Computer Engineering Program ABET Assessment Coordinator, Fall 2020-Spring 2021
  5. Faculty Counselor for Sac State Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Teach On!-Line Summer Camp, Summer 2020
  6. Sac State Computer Science Scholarship committee, 2020-2021
  7. Faculty Advisor of Hackstate Student Club, Spring 2017-Spring 2019
  8. Department of Computer Science Outreaching Coordinator, 2016-2023
  9. Co-lead Sac State CAE-CD (Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense) re-designation, 2016-2017