Yishen Sun

Yishen Sun received her PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. Prior to joining National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Dr. Sun was a member of corporate research and standards teams for more than 10 years, working for well-known technology companies, including Motorola and Siemens. She contributed actively to the global standardization effort of 3GPP and has been granted more than 20 patents in the area of wireless communications. Currently, Dr. Sun is a researcher in the Wireless Network Division (WND) in the Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) at NIST. Her current research efforts focus on the device to device communications over 5G new radio (NR) sidelink, especially the applications in mission critical communications and/or vehicle to everything (V2X). Dr. Sun regularly attends 3GPP RAN2 and SA2 meetings and follows the discussion and progress on multi-hop relay topics closely.