Zihun Yan received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and New Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems (MAIS), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), China. He received his B.E. degree in automation from Tsinghua University, China, in 2015. His research focuses on pattern recognition and biometrics.

He is working as an engineer at CHINA ENERGY INVESTMENT (CHN ENERGY).