networks, 6G/B5G wireless network and brain-inspired wireless networks. She
serves as the associate Editor-in-Chief of the IET Communications, Advisory Editor
for SpringerPlus and Guest Editor for Journal of Communications and Information
Networks and Journal of Computer Networks and Communications. She also serves
as ICCC2019 Co-chair of Wireless Communications Symposium, the workshop
chair of FCST’15 and the TPC Member for IEEE Globecom ’16, Globecom ’17,
Globecom ’18 Conferences, IEEE ICC’14, ICC’15 and ICC’16 Conferences, IEEE
SmartGridComm’14 Symposium and IEEE ScalCom’14 Conference as well.
Yinan Yin completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor Keyuan Zou at
the University of Central Lancashire. She now is lecturer in law in Liverpool John
Moore’s University. She teaches a range of subjects at both undergraduate and
postgraduate levels and also undertakes module leadership of maritime law. The
research questions of her PhD involve various current interdisciplinary issues of law
and policy in relation to contract law and tort law in the context of international and
Chinese law. She has presented at conferences and published journal papers and
book chapters concerning issues on international law and international maritime law.
She is carrying out a book project in relation to regionalism and international law as
co-author for the Routledge publisher. Apart from being a lecturer in law, she also
serves as arbitrator with Beihai Arbitration Commission.
Haiyang Yu obtained his LLB degree from East China University of Political
Science and Law (ECUPL) in Shanghai in 2016, his LLM in Commercial Law
specializing in Maritime and Transport Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam in
2017 and is currently pursuing a PhD in law specializing in Maritime Law at the
Institute of Transnational Legal Research, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. He
attended courses in Marine Insurance at the master’s level offered jointly by the
Dutch P&I Insurance Group and Erasmus University Rotterdam and served a legal
internship at Pfizer in Shanghai. He holds the Legal Professional Qualification of
China and currently serves as Executive Editor-in-Chief of the CECCA Newsletter
on Maritime and Commercial Law, London.
Minna Yu is a doctoral student in Public International Law at Wuhan University.
She received the degrees of Master of Laws (2016) and Bachelor of Laws (2014)
from Dalian Maritime University. Minna has a well-rounded educational background encompassing both private and public maritime law. She served as a legal
adviser with China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO
Group) for one year. Her doctoral research focuses on jurisdictional issues involving
various international judicial institutions and probes into Chinese perspectives
towards legal methodologies for the settlement of maritime disputes.
Lijun Zhao is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, London, specializing in
international trade and maritime law and a Founding Director of CECCA. She has an
interdisciplinary background in economics, business and management and is a
Fellow of the Society of Legal Scholars, the British Institute of International and
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serves as the associate Editor-in-Chief of the IET Communications, Advisory Editor
for SpringerPlus and Guest Editor for Journal of Communications and Information
Networks and Journal of Computer Networks and Communications. She also serves
as ICCC2019 Co-chair of Wireless Communications Symposium, the workshop
chair of FCST’15 and the TPC Member for IEEE Globecom ’16, Globecom ’17,
Globecom ’18 Conferences, IEEE ICC’14, ICC’15 and ICC’16 Conferences, IEEE
SmartGridComm’14 Symposium and IEEE ScalCom’14 Conference as well.
Yinan Yin completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor Keyuan Zou at
the University of Central Lancashire. She now is lecturer in law in Liverpool John
Moore’s University. She teaches a range of subjects at both undergraduate and
postgraduate levels and also undertakes module leadership of maritime law. The
research questions of her PhD involve various current interdisciplinary issues of law
and policy in relation to contract law and tort law in the context of international and
Chinese law. She has presented at conferences and published journal papers and
book chapters concerning issues on international law and international maritime law.
She is carrying out a book project in relation to regionalism and international law as
co-author for the Routledge publisher. Apart from being a lecturer in law, she also
serves as arbitrator with Beihai Arbitration Commission.
Haiyang Yu obtained his LLB degree from East China University of Political
Science and Law (ECUPL) in Shanghai in 2016, his LLM in Commercial Law
specializing in Maritime and Transport Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam in
2017 and is currently pursuing a PhD in law specializing in Maritime Law at the
Institute of Transnational Legal Research, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. He
attended courses in Marine Insurance at the master’s level offered jointly by the
Dutch P&I Insurance Group and Erasmus University Rotterdam and served a legal
internship at Pfizer in Shanghai. He holds the Legal Professional Qualification of
China and currently serves as Executive Editor-in-Chief of the CECCA Newsletter
on Maritime and Commercial Law, London.
Minna Yu is a doctoral student in Public International Law at Wuhan University.
She received the degrees of Master of Laws (2016) and Bachelor of Laws (2014)
from Dalian Maritime University. Minna has a well-rounded educational background encompassing both private and public maritime law. She served as a legal
adviser with China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO
Group) for one year. Her doctoral research focuses on jurisdictional issues involving
various international judicial institutions and probes into Chinese perspectives
towards legal methodologies for the settlement of maritime disputes.
Lijun Zhao is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, London, specializing in
international trade and maritime law and a Founding Director of CECCA. She has an
interdisciplinary background in economics, business and management and is a
Fellow of the Society of Legal Scholars, the British Institute of International and
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