About

Dr. Yan is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Internet and Mobile Computing Lab (IMCL) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), advised by Prof. Jiannong Cao. He received his B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2019. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Southeast University in 2026, advised by Prof. Ping Jiang, Prof. Junzhou Luo (罗军舟), and Prof. Zhen Ling (凌振).

His research interests include trusted execution environments (TEEs), secure driver and peripheral access, and confidential-computing infrastructure. He builds practical isolation systems for embedded, edge, and cloud platforms, with a particular focus on enabling existing Linux drivers and user applications to run securely in constrained trusted environments.