She worked as a Psychometrician and Director of Research in the Language Testing Division of Pearson, London before she joined Southampton. Her research interests include psychometric analysis of language testing data, English as second/foreign language learner characteristics, and quantitative research methodology. Ying's publications can be found in Language Testing, Canadian Journal of Education, Canadian Modern Language Review, International Journal of Pedagogies & Learning, and TESL-EJ. Her area of work covers language tests from China, Canada, and the UK. Ying has been serving as an external psychometric consultant over the years for international language testing organizations. She currently supervises MA/PhD students working in the fields of assessment literacy, large-scale testing and psychometrics.