Dan Yao is Research Associate in Signal and Image processing with the UDRC at Heriot-Watt University. Prior to joining Heriot-Watt University, she studied Electronics and Communication Engineering as a master student in Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she obtained her M.Eng degree this June 2018. Her research focuses on developing new computational methods for low illumination multidimensional imaging and sensing, specifically scalable probabilistic modelling.