Dr. Yan is the President of Potomac Data Analytics, LLC. He received his B.S. in Applied
Mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai, P.R. China and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
from University of California, Davis.
At Potomac Data Analytics, LLC, Dr. Yan worked on litigation cases involving municipal bonds arbitrage strategy,
interest rate swaps, credit default swap, structured notes, structured CD, equity index annuity,
auction rate securities, leverage and inverse leveraged exchange traded funds, privately-held business
valuation, security valuation, and bank proprietary Indexes. Dr. Yan also specialized in large data
analysis and worked on projects involving Cryptocurrency tradings, future and option tradings, and
opioid shipments and dispensing. Dr. Yan has published various papers in finance and applied math
journals. He specializes in the fields of data analysis, statistics, applied mathematics, optimization
and modeling. His doctoral work focused on the stability and resolution analysis in the imaging
science.
