Yan Sun received her B.S. degree from Beijing University, Beijing,
China, in 1998.  She is expecting to get her Ph.D. degree in
Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, in
June 2004. Ms. Sun received the Graduate School Fellowship at the
University of Maryland from 1998 to 1999, and the Excellent Graduate
Award of Beijing University in 1998.  Her research interests include
network security, wireless communications and networking, and
multimedia signal processing. She is a member of the IEEE Signal
Processing and Communication Societies.