Registered Architect in New York and California: Yan has solid background in educational and research projects. His focus is on how to translate the client's vision into reality. We believes in creating spaces with stories that could inspire students and researchers to ask new questions.Recent Projects:- UCSF, School of Dentistry- Gemini Rosemont, Life Science Laboratory, Santa Clara, CA - Sequlite Genomics Laboratory, Pleasanton, CA- Atonarp Lab, Pleasanton, CA- Santa Monica College’s Pickleball Sports Complex - Evergreen Valley College (EVC) Pickleball Sports Complex, San Jose, CA- Canyon Middle School Modernization, Castro Valley, CA- Castro Valley Adult School Modernization (in Collaboration with American Modular)- Vannoy Elementary School, New Amphitheater, Castro Valley, CA- Castro Valley High School (STEM Building)- Cesar Chavez, New Sports Complex, New Haven Unified School District, CA- Itliong Vera-Cruz, New Sports Complex, New Haven Unified School District, CA- Arroyo High School, San Lorenzo, CA (in Collaboration with American Modular)- San Lorenzo High School, San Lorenzo, CA (in Collaboration with American Modular)- Baca Properties, Mixed-Used Housing Complex at Las Positas Court, Livermore, CA

• Project planner and initiator of a research grant involving ways to connect Bangkok’s canals to Metro Rapid Transit (MRT) transit stations. Bangkok has over a thousand canals; most of them are lined with slums and informal settlements. The City of Bangkok is now in the process of implementing this policy. (See news link below)https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1105425/linking-waterways-with-rail-systems-could-ease-traffic-woesThe intersections of MRT stations and canal lines are potential economic catalysts for the development of canal-side slums. In terms of the city’s overall connectivity, such hybrid linkages of canals and metro transit would provide rapid – and random – long distant “jump” across the city, a phenomenon that could not be provided by any one type of transit system alone. The research will provide a mathematical model of hybrid connectivity and recommendations on which canals and intersection points to focus on.https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1105425/linking-waterways-with-rail-systems-could-ease-traffic-woes

• Provide initial conceptual design framework for the Luoyang civic center design, commercial complex design, and urban design. Architect of Record: Gensler (Retail Complex), XWHO RECON (Civil Center Complex)• Oversee the design and development of Luoyang new central business district with mixed-use retail, residential, and civic center. (Investment cost: 5.9 billion RMB, CP Group, China)** Reference Contact Available in Shanghai

• Initiated a community solar housing project with CODI and a Singaporean researcher/investor, involving 46 households where by the housing co-ops could sell electricity back to the grid and get Feed-in-Tariff. (Status: Installation completed. Now selling electricity to the grid at 6.85 baht/kWh) These housing co-ops were formerly ‘slums’ and ‘informal settlements.These former squatters now earn up to 2500 THB per month by selling electricity to the grid. They use this extra cash as micro-credit to pay back their housing loan to the government and to start new businesses.

Master Planning and Design of the ACLC campus (60 million baht investment cost)See: http://www.allgreenlearningcenter.org/Shareholder of AGLC in partnership with Grenzone Thailand and Goh Foundation, Singapore. A campus for sharing ideas about sustainable building technology such as Building Integrated solar PV (BIPV), rammed earth, bamboo construction, and water purification.Students from Singapore Polytechnic University collaborate and share ideas with students from Thai universities in common campus dormitory. Aside from regular forum and debates, students are encouraged to think collaboratively while hiking outdoors at the nearby Kao Yai National Park.

• Oversee the redevelopment of 6th street neighborhoods corridor ($100 million investment cost) and low-income community development in Tenderloin district, San Francisco, California (2001-2008) • Community representative and negotiator in the fight for the establishment of a new Chinatown City College, San Francisco (2007)• Master plan East-14th ("International") Boulevard in Oakland. Encouraged retail activities as "catalysts" in generating economic growth and urban patterns for the new Vietnamese immigrant neighborhood.(Under the City of Oakland's Community Economic Development Agency) Board member of the East Lake Merchant Association (2002-2003).• Project Architect in converting an old 1929 high-rise hotel ("Hotel Olympic") into urban-based housing for low-income seniors and transitory housing for the homeless, Tenderloin, San Francisco (Cost: $8.0 million) • Project Architect in the design of a communal housing - 35 families of Cambodian and Latino immigrants, Oakland, California. (Cost $4.0 million)

• Design offices and digital manufacturing plants for Stanford University Network (SUN) Microsystems in Newark, California (20,186 sq. m)