Qin has research interest in multimedia content analysis (including audio, image, video, text etc.), human computer interaction and machine learning in general. Her recent works on video captioning and emotion detection have won awards in several challenge evaluations. Qin received her Ph.D. degree in Language and Information Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. She received her B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in computer science and technologies from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1996, 1999, respectively. Qin worked as a research faculty in Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University from Feb. 2007 to March, 2012. She was a Research Scientist at IBM China Research Laboratory from April, 2012 to December 2012 before joining Renmin University of China on January 2013.