Yin Zhong is a lecturer at the Center for Language Education of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She holds a doctorate in Applied Language Sciences and a Master's degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. With a rich background in linguistics, Yin Zhong possesses extensive experience teaching at various tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and has also accumulated years of experience in the media industry in Australia.

Her research work primarily revolves around employing corpus-based methodologies and behavioral experiments to investigate the relationship between sensorimotor information and lexical representations in the context of Chinese language. Additionally, she delves into the comprehension of novel metaphors and their effective usage in communication. She has published over 10 journal papers and book chapters in internationally recognised peer-reviewed publications, including Humanities and Social Sciences Communication, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Linguistic Vanguard, International Journal of Communication, and Linguistics Research. She serves as an editorial board member for the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communication, and is frequently sought after as a peer reviewer for esteemed journals.