Dr. Yan is Principal, Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, Inc. As an Applied Math Ph.D., Dr. Yan specializes in modeling and analyzing complex financial products, including structured investments, equity indexed annuities, derivatives, complex strategies, etc. His current and prior consulting services include municipal bonds trading strategy, interest rate reset on ARS and VRDO, analyzing billions of lines of tick order data in futures, options, and the e-currency market.

Prior to joining SLCG, Dr. Yan was a von Karman Instructor of the Computing + Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Department in California Institute of Technology where he taught graduate level course in applied numerical methods and conducted research work in stochastic partial different equations and empirical data analysis.