闫晓丹，北京邮电大学电子工程学院副教授，托举人才。依托信息光子学与光通信全国重点实验室，从事人工智能光网络、卫星激光网络、卫星互联网一体化安全、光通信系统与光网络安全等基础研究和应用基础研究。2020年博士毕业于北京邮电大学，同年入选北京航空航天大学“卓越百人博士后支持计划”。承担国家自然科学基金青年基金项目、国防纵向科研课题、中国博士后基金面上项目、中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助、腾讯横向项目、人民教育出版社横向项目等纵向和横向课题的研究。
近五年期间在TII、TVT、TNSE、IoTJ、TCBB等权威期刊共发表论文20余篇。部分成果如下，
[1] Xiaodan Yan, Yang Xu, Xiaofei Xing, Baojiang Cui, Zihao Guo, and Taibiao Guo. “Trustworthy Network Anomaly Detection Based on an Adaptive Learning Rate and Momentum in IIoT,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (中科院1区，TOP期刊，Q1区，IF 12.3)
[2] Xiaodan Yan, Yang Xu, Baojiang Cui, Shuhan Zhang, Taibiao Guo, and Chaoliang Li. “Learning URL Embedding for Malicious Website Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (中科院1区，TOP期刊，Q1区，IF 12.3)
[3] Xiaodan Yan, Yang Xu, Shuang Yao, Yanwe, Sun. A Domain Embedding Model for Botnet Detection Based on Smart Blockchain[J]. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. (中科院1区，TOP期刊，Q1区，IF 10.6)
[4] Xiaodan Yan, Baojiang Cui, Yang Xu, Peilin Shi, and Ziqi Wang. “A Method of Information Protection for Collaborative Deep Learning under GAN Model Attack,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. (CCF B类期刊，Q1区，IF 4.5) ESI高被引论文
[5] Xiaodan Yan, Jiwei Zhang, Elahi Haroon, and et al., “A Personalized Search Query Generating Method for Safety-enhanced Vehicle-to-People Networks，” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (中科院2区，TOP期刊，Q1区，IF 6.8)
[6] Yang Xu, Xiaodan Yan*, Yulei Wu, and et al., “Hierarchical Bidirectional RNN for Safety-enhanced B5G Heterogeneous Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. (中科院1区，TOP期刊，Q1区，IF 6.6)
[7] Xiaodan Yan, Yang Xu, Cancan Chen, Shuai Zhang, "Privacy preserving for AI-based 3D human pose recovery and retargeting", ISA Transactions. (中科院2区，TOP期刊，Q1区，IF 7.3)