Dr. Chin is a specialist in AI and data governance, with extensive experience in digital and AI policy, ethics, and regulation at national and international levels. She is a Research Consultant at the United Nations University Macau, and an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University. Dr Chin serves on ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42, CEN/CLC/JTC 21, BSI/ART/1, the UN ODET’s AI Governance for Humanity Lab’s Working Group on AI governance interoperability, etc.
Leveraging her academic backgrounds in computer science, communication, ICT policy and governance, her teaching, research, and publications on AI have always been interdisciplinary, comparative, considering both abstract values, policy as well as tools and practices, and focusing on salient and diverse global challenges and policy-relevant issues. Her interdisciplinary research has been published in peer-reviewed SSCI-, ESCI-, CSSCI-, and Scopus-indexed journals, spanning from communication and law to political science.
Her recent research projects cover AI safety, AI in education, Interoperability of AI governance, and data governance. She has recently co-edited the textbook Ethics, and Social Governance of Artificial Intelligence (2026) for China's "101 Project" in AI and Ethics, and Handbook of Media Regulation (2026); led UNU Macau’s policy report Interoperability in AI Safety Governance: Ethics, Regulations, and Standards (2025); co-led IGF PNAI’s policy reports the AI Governance We Want, Call to action: Liability, Interoperability, Sustainability & Labour (2024) & Strengthening multistakeholder approach to global AI governance, protecting the environment and human rights in the era of generative AI and made substantive written contributions to Toward Interoperability and Inclusive Participation in AI Governance(2026), Narratives of Digital Ethics (2024), Recommendations on the Use of Synthetic Data to Train AI Models (2024), etc.
Dr Chin holds a BSc (Hons.) in Computer Science from the Chinese University of
Hong Kong, an MA and a PhD in Media and Communication from Goldsmiths
College, University of London and the University of Westminster.