Haixin Sun (M’13) received a B.S. degree and an M.S. degree in electronic engineering from Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Then he received the Ph.D. degree in communication engineering from the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China, in 2006. He visited the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, in March 2012 to April 2013. He is currently a professor and doctoral advisor in the School of Information Science and Engineering at Xiamen University. His current research interests include underwater acoustic communication, network, and signal processing. He is a member of IEICE and IEEE. He was awarded the Huawei Fellowship of Xiamen University in 2010, the Faculty of Engineering Excellence Award of Xiamen University, and the Prize of the Chinese Army Scientific and Technological in 2017. He has served as a reviewer for journals and conferences.