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Haihan Sun

Haihan Sun

Assistant Professor

Haihan Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on antennas, ground-penetrating radar, microwave sensing, and nondestructive testing technologies. She has received multiple Young Professional and Student Paper Awards at international conferences. She received the Mojgan Daneshmand Grant from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) in 2021. She was recognized as an Outstanding Associate Editor for both the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation in 2025. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2026. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for both the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, and is also an IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassador.

Department

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Contact

3441, Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI

  • PhD 2019, University of Technology Sydney
  • B.Eng. 2015, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  • intelligent microwave sensing and non-destructive testing technologies
  • antenna systems for wireless communications

  • 2026 National Science Foundation, NSF CAREER Award
  • 2025 IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Outstanding Associate Editor
  • 2025 IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Outstanding Associate Editor
  • 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Young Professional Ambassador
  • 2022 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), Young Professional Paper Honorable Mention
  • 2021 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Mojgan Daneshmand Grant
  • 2019 Australasian Symposium on Antennas, Best Oral Presentation
  • 2018 Australian Microwave Symposium, Best Student Paper Award (First Prize)
  • 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and. Propagation (APS), Honorable Mention in Student Paper Competition

  • Chen, T., Gao, Y., Wang, Y., & Sun, H. (2025). Estimation of Specific Gravity of Potato Tubers Using Dielectric Properties. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
  • Haldes, T., Sun, H., & Hagness, S. (2025). Temperature-and Volume-Fraction-Dependent Debye Model for the Dielectric Properties of Binary Mixtures of Water and Methanol at Microwave Frequencies. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
  • Gu, Y., Sun, H., & Van Der Weide, D. (2025). A Near-Field Super-Resolution Network for Accelerating Antenna Characterization. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
  • Cheng, W., Sun, H., & Fan, Z. (2024). Monitoring Early-Stage Corrosion Damage Using a MIMO GPR Array. In 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 6508–6510).
  • Sun, H. (2024). MPA-Net: A Deep Learning Model for Estimating Rebar Parameters Based on GPR Data. In 2024 IEEE INC-USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium) (pp. 82–83).
  • Sun, H., & Vipiana, F. (2024). Advancing Women in Engineering: What Early-Career Researchers Have to Say [Women in Engineering]. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 66(2), 76-79.
  • Cheng, W., Sun, H., Tan, K. H., & Fan, Z. (2024). Early Detection of Corrosion Damage in Reinforced Concrete Using GPR Array Imaging Method. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
  • Sun, H. (2024). MAPD-Net: A GPR-Based Method for Estimating Rebar Parameters and Concrete Moisture Content. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
  • Sun, H., Cheng, W., & Fan, Z. (2023). Dual-Polarized Ground-Penetrating Radar Method for Sizing Cylindrical Metal Bars. In 2023 12th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR) (pp. 1–4).
  • Dai, Q., Lee, Y. H., Sun, H., Ow, G., Yusof, M. L., & Yucel, A. C. (2023). 3DInvNet: A Deep Learning-Based 3D Ground-Penetrating Radar Data Inversion. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61, 1-16.

  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 420 - Electromagnetic Wave Transmission (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 320 - Electrodynamics II (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 841 - Antennas (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 320 - Electrodynamics II (Fall 2024)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • ECE 420 - Electromagnetic Wave Transmission (Spring 2024)
  • ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2024)