QIN Hanyu is a Ph.D. student co-supervised by SUSTech and HKU. In 2020, she got her Master's Degree from Tongji University. In 2017, she graduated from Central China Normal University with a double Bachelor of Education and Arts. Before pursuing her Ph.D., she worked at China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC) as a project assistant, including the fifth round of China Discipline Evaluation (CDE), Discipline Big-data Services, Degree Authorization Review, and so on.

Her research interests include doctoral education, higher education internationalization, research cooperation, etc.