Jin Yan is a PhD student in Physics at UC Irvine, specializing in plasma physics. His research interests lie in nanophotonics, optics, and machine learning. Prior to joining UCI, Jin earned his bachelor;s degree in Opto-Electronic Information Science and Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China.

During his undergraduate studies, he worked with Professor Zhenyu Yang in the Nanotechnology Lab on projects involving nanophotonics, metasurfaces, and inverse design using deep learning.