Dr. Yamin Yan is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Before joining NTU Singapore, she was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering/the CKS Robotics Institute, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, from 2021-2023, and a Research Associate at the University of Newcastle, Australia, from 2018-2021. She received the B.Eng. degree from Wuyuzhang Honors College in Automation, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, in 2017. Her research interests include networked systems and control, cyber-physical systems, security control, and computational intelligence.
She was a selected participant for the 2023 Asia Pacific Women in Leadership Mentoring Program, 4th Cohort, an Awarded Future Digileader 2023 for the Digital Futures in Stockholm, Sweden, and a shortlisted candidate for the Asian Deans' Forum 2022 The Rising Stars-Women in Engineering. She was also a recipient of the 2022 Royal Society International Kan Tong Po Visiting Fellowship, the 2019 Future Women Leaders Conference Award for women in STEM from Monash University, Australia, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA) Best Paper Finalist, and 2017 CUHK Faculty Outstanding Tutors Award. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board.