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Chen Sun

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Adjunct Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Mechanical and Mechatronics EngineeringUniversity of Waterloo

Chen Sun

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
89 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 10 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

EAV-DETR: Efficient Arbitrary-View oriented object detection with probabilistic guarantees for UAV imagery
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · 2026 · senior author
DriveLegal: Toward legally compliant driving via trustworthy hybrid retrieval-augmented LLMs
Expert Systems with Applications · 2026
Holocene Environmental Changes and Their Drivers in a Mid-Latitude Desert Plateau (Alashan, China) of the Northern Hemisphere
Atmosphere · 2026 · first author

All 205 publications

From the 150 most recent of 205 publications.

EAV-DETR: Efficient Arbitrary-View oriented object detection with probabilistic guarantees for UAV imagery

Haoyu Zuo, Minghao Ning, Yiming Shu, Shucheng Huang, Chen Sun

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing20265 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2026.02.009

DriveLegal: Toward legally compliant driving via trustworthy hybrid retrieval-augmented LLMs

Shucheng Huang, Chen Sun, Minghao Ning, Yufeng Yang, Changye Ma, Jiaming Zhong, Keqi Shu, Freda Shi, Amir Khajepour

Expert Systems with Applications20264 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2026.131593

Holocene Environmental Changes and Their Drivers in a Mid-Latitude Desert Plateau (Alashan, China) of the Northern Hemisphere

Chen Sun, Bingqi Zhu

Atmosphere20261 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/atmos17020210

Synergistic photo-thermal catalytic liquefaction strategy of α-cellulose at low temperature in methanol for efficient biocrude production

Jiajin Jiang, Kang Chen, Wenrui Yao, Tianhao Liu, Lideng Yang, Shengyuan Qiu, Qingli Sun, Chen Sun, Haiyan Tan, Yanhua Zhang

Renewable Energy20261 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2026.125390

Turning Trust to Transactions: Tracking Affiliate Marketing and FTC Compliance in YouTube’s Influencer Economy

Chen Sun, Yash Vekaria, Zubair Shafiq, Rishab Nithyanand

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media2026First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42748

Physics-informed residual reinforcement learning via expert prior knowledge for safe and efficient autonomous merging

Dequan Zeng, Zhishao Ni, Zhuoren Li, Xinrui Zhang, Ming Liu, Yiming Hu, Chen Sun, Bo Leng

Neurocomputing2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2026.134631

Toward Smart Forestry: A Review on Vision-based Perception for Terrain Classification and Obstacle Detection

Md. Zahin Muntaqim, Chenxi Liu, Dongyue Qian, Chen Sun, Yukun Lu

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18203711

Faults and Pitfalls in Implementing the Right to be Forgotten

Chen Sun, Nikolas Guggenberger, Supreeth Shastri

Communications of the ACM2026First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1145/3807515

Faults and Pitfalls in Implementing the Right to be Forgotten

Chen Sun, Nikolas Guggenberger, Supreeth Shastri

arXiv (Cornell University)2026First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.27171

DuSA: Dual-loop self-learning framework for autonomous driving with LLM-guided reinforcement learning

Jinchang Xu, Sunan Zhang, Chen Sun, J X Wang, Yang Xiao, Bingbing Li, Yulong Wang, Guodong Yin, Weichao Zhuang

Knowledge-Based Systems2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2026.116002

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Chen Sun

Research

Latest papers

EAV-DETR: Efficient Arbitrary-View oriented object detection with probabilistic guarantees for UAV imagery

DriveLegal: Toward legally compliant driving via trustworthy hybrid retrieval-augmented LLMs

Holocene Environmental Changes and Their Drivers in a Mid-Latitude Desert Plateau (Alashan, China) of the Northern Hemisphere

Synergistic photo-thermal catalytic liquefaction strategy of α-cellulose at low temperature in methanol for efficient biocrude production

Turning Trust to Transactions: Tracking Affiliate Marketing and FTC Compliance in YouTube’s Influencer Economy

Physics-informed residual reinforcement learning via expert prior knowledge for safe and efficient autonomous merging

Toward Smart Forestry: A Review on Vision-based Perception for Terrain Classification and Obstacle Detection

Faults and Pitfalls in Implementing the Right to be Forgotten

Faults and Pitfalls in Implementing the Right to be Forgotten

DuSA: Dual-loop self-learning framework for autonomous driving with LLM-guided reinforcement learning

Frequent collaborators

Amir Khajepour

Dongpu Cao

Emmanuel Ho

Krzysztof Czarnecki

Michael Rubinstein

Yukun Lu

Feiyue Wang

En-Hui Yang

Mohammad Pirani

Cedric Chauve