Yan received the B.Eng. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanjing Normal University, China, in 2016, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Northumbria University, U.K., in 2020. He is currently an assistant professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. Prior to that, he was a postdoc at Cranfield University, U.K., from 2021 to 2022.

His research interests cut across several disciplines, which include wireless networked control, machine learning, and their applications to the Internet of Things.