硕士及本科毕业于永利集团光电工程系，2005年在英国西英格兰大学访学三个月，2008年7月毕业于永利集团信息学院获博士学位，2012年6月至2013年6月在英国谢菲尔德大学自动控制与系统工程系访学一年。2018年12月-2019年3月，在加拿大滑铁卢大学应用数学系访学三个月。
[1] Ming Du, Yan Ding* , Xiuyun Meng, Hua-Liang Wei, Yifan Zhao, “Distractor-aware Deep Regression for Visual Tracking”, Sensors 2019, 19(2), 387;
[2] Xiaoxiao Xie, Yan Ding* , Zun Xu, “A Landmark Detection and Recognition Algorithm for UAV Autonomous Pitching”, The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS);
[3] Jihui Zhang, Yan Ding, Hong Xu, “An Optical Flow based Moving Objects Detection Algorithm for the UAV”, 2019 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems
[4] Yating Yuan, Yan Ding, “An Improved Method of 3D Scene Reconstruction Based on SfM”, 2018 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE)
[5] Zun Xu, Yan Ding, Jiayuan Shan, “An Anti-occlusion Correlation Filtering Tracking Algorithm for UAV”, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC)
