Jinbao Yang is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages, Anshan Normal University, China, and a Ph.D. candidate in Education at Ghent University, Belgium. She holds degrees in English Linguistics and Teacher Education, Educational Psychology from KU Leuven, and Economics from Hasselt University, combining expertise in linguistics, education, psychology, and economics.

She has extensive international teaching and research experience, including work with the EU Global ENLIGHT Module Project and as a visiting scholar at a Confucius Institute in Belgium. Her research focuses on digital education, blended and flipped learning, human-machine collaboration, AI in language learning, cross-cultural communication, and emerging models of knowledge production and dissemination.