Dr Yin Zhong is a Lecturer I and Coordinator of Third Language (Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish) Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Center for Language Education, HKUST. Her interdisciplinary research connects AI-enhanced language education with corpus, computational, and cognitive linguistics. Drawing on corpus analysis, behavioural experiments, natural language processing, and machine learning, she investigates human–AI assessment, corpus-based pedagogy, and AI-supported workplace communication. A complementary strand of her work examines sensory language, embodied cognition, and metaphor, while applying computational approaches to public and online discourse.

She currently leads RubriX, a CEI-funded project developing a multi-agent GenAI framework for more inclusive, transparent, and collaborative rubric design and assessment. She also co-leads BRIDGE, an inter-institutional initiative promoting global competence through interlingual and intercultural dialogue.

Since 2020, she has published 21 scholarly works, including articles in leading Q1 and Q2 journals such as Language Learning, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Discourse & Communication.

She is also an Editor of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications and a reviewer for international journals in linguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse studies, and language education.