Yan Feng is a PhD-Candidate at the department of Transport & Planning. She obtained master degree in the major of Traffic and Transportation at Bejing Jiaotong University (China) and bachelor degree in the major of Transportation at East China Jiaotong Univeristy (China).

Her research interests lie on using Virtual Reality to study pedestrian behaviour. The research objective is combining both methods and technology from pedestrian behaviour research and VR & AR to determine to what extent VR & AR technologies can be used to study pedestrian behaviour. The research involves experimental design, setup and performance of laboratory and field experiments, data processing, analysis of pedestrian behaviour.