About


Hi! I’m Haihan Sun, an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research interests lie in applied electromagnetics, with a particular emphasis on two main areas: intelligent microwave sensing and non-destructive testing technologies and antenna systems for wireless communications .

News

2025/02 Haihan has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member.
2025/01 Our Ph.D. student Yuki Gao has received the prestigious IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Grant. Congratulations Yuki!
2024/11 Our journal paper “A Near-Field Super-Resolution Network for Accelerating Antenna Characterization” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
2024/10 Our journal paper “Learning from Clutter: An Unsupervised Learning-Based Clutter Removal Scheme for GPR B-Scans” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.
2024/08 Welcome Taorui, Yuki, and Zifan to our team!
2024/07 Our undergraduate research assistant Chi Wang has been awarded the 2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship. Congratulations Chi!
2024/07 Our journal paper “MAPD-Net: A GPR-Based Method for Estimating Rebar Parameters and Concrete Moisture Content” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
2024/07 We presented our work on “MPA-Net: A Deep Learning Model for Estimating Rebar Parameters Based on GPR Data” and "Characteristic-Mode-Guided Suppression of Cross-Band Scattering and Coupling in Antenna Array" at the 2024 IEEE AP-S/URSI conference.
2024/07 We presented our work on “Monitoring Early-Stage Corrosion Damage Using a MIMO GPR Array" at the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
2024/04 Haihan has been appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
2024/03 Our journal paper “Early Detection of Corrosion Damage in Reinforced Concrete Using GPR Array Imaging Method” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
2024/02 Haihan contributed a paper entitled "Advancing Women in Engineering: What Early-Career Researchers Have to Say" to the Women in Engineering (WiE) column in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine.
2023/11Haihan has been selected as one of the 2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Young Professional Ambassadors. [link]
2023/09Haihan has been appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation.
2023/08Our journal paper “Corrosion Damage Detection in Reinforced Concrete Using Rayleigh Wave-Based Method” has been accepted for publication in Cement and Concrete Composites.
2023/08Haihan joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor =)
2023/07Haihan chaired the session “Localization and Estimation Techniques in Sensing and Communications” at the 2023 IEEE AP-S/URSI conference.She also delivered an invited talk “Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society: An Early-Career Researcher’s Perspective”, and presented her research on “Ground Penetrating Radar Techniques for Estimating the Diameter of Reinforcing Bars in Concrete”.
2023/07Haihan presented her research on “Dual-Polarized Ground-Penetrating Radar Method for Sizing Reinforcing Bars” at the 12th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar.
2023/05Our journal paper “3DInvNet: A Deep Learning-Based 3D Ground-Penetrating Radar Data Inversion” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
2023/01Our journal paper “Diameter Estimation of Cylindrical Metal Bar Using Wideband Dual-Polarized Ground-Penetrating Radar” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
2022/11Our journal paper “Estimating the Diameter of Reinforcing Bars Using an Ultra-Wideband MIMO GPR Array” has been accepted for publication in Construction and Building Materials.
2022/11Our conference paper “Clutter Removal in Ground-Penetrating Radar Images Using Deep Neural Networks” received Young Professional Paper Honorable Mention at 2022 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP) in Sydney, Australia.
2022/07Our journal paper “A Deep Learning-Based GPR Forward Solver for Predicting B-Scans of Subsurface Objects” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
2022/05Our journal paper “DMRF-UNet: A Two-Stage Deep Learning Scheme for GPR Data Inversion under Heterogeneous Soil Conditions” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
2022/05Our journal paper “Learning to Remove Clutter in Real-World GPR Images Using Hybrid Data” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.