Dr Yan is the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF), he is one of global research leaders in intelligent forensics. Dr Yan was an exchange computer scientist between the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), he is the Chair of the ACM Multimedia Chapter of New Zealand, a Member of the ACM, a Senior Member of the IEEE, TC members of the IEEE. Dr Yan is a guest (adjunct) Professor with PhD supervision of the State Key Laboratory of Information Security (SKLOIS) China, a visiting professor of The University of Auckland (UoA) New Zealand, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK.