Dr. Yan is a lecturer in the Zhejiang University/University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign Institute at the Zhejiang University, International Campus.

She obtained her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Queen Mary University of London at 2020. Before that she received her Bachelor and Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from Xian Jiaotong University. Her research interests include unsustainable energy, wind turbine and computational fluid dynamics.