2012年本科毕业于北京大学物理学院，2018年获得美国哈佛大学博士学位。

2018-2021年在德国马克斯普朗克物理研究所任博士后研究员；

2021年加盟上海交通大学物理与天文学院。获2021年国家自然科学基金优秀青年科学基金项目（海外），入选上海市海外高层次人才计划。

研究方向为微扰量子场论，散射振幅，高精度对撞机物理。

现阶段主要研究兴趣：

1.能量关联函数的新型结构；

2. 规范场散射振幅的高圈红外发散；

3. 大型高圈费曼积分计算方法等。

[1]. Lecture series “QCD phenomenology and scattering amplitudes” at SAGEX PhD School in Amplitudes, 2021:    https://indico.nbi.ku.dk/event/1530/overview

[2]. Kai Yan and Xiaoyuan Zhang. "Three-Point Energy Correlator in N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory",  Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 021602 (2022), arXiv:2203.04349 [hep-th]

[3]. Robin Brüser, Christoph Dlapa, Johannes M. Henn, Kai Yan, "The full angle- dependence of the four-loop cusp anomalous dimension in QED, " Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 021601 (2021), arXiv:2007.04851 [hep-th]

[4]. J. M. Henn, E. Sokatchev, K. Yan and A. Zhiboedov, "Energy-energy correlation in N= 4 super Yang-Mills theory at next-to-next-to-leading order," Phys.Rev.D 100 (2019) 3, 036010.

[5]. D. Chicherin, J. M. Henn, E. Sokatchev, and K. Yan, "From correlation functions to event shapes in QCD," JHEP 02 (2021) 053.

[6]. Lance J. Dixon, Enrico Herrmann, K. Yan, and Hua Xing Zhu, "Soft gluon emission at two loops in full color," JHEP 05 (2020) 135.

[7]. C. Dlapa, J. M. Henn, and K. Yan, "Deriving canonical differential equations for Feynman integrals from a single uniform weight integral," JHEP 05 (2020) 025.

[8]. M. D. Schwartz, K. Yan, and H. X. Zhu, "Collinear factorization violation and effective field theory," Phys.Rev.D 97 (2018) 9, 096017.