Ying Yue is a foreign/second-language educator and language-teacher educator. Her research centers on foreign-language pedagogy, with a particular emphasis on high-leverage teaching practices, cultural dimensions of foreign language teaching and foreign-language teacher education. Her work has been published in various academic journals, including an article titled "Teaching Chinese in K-12 Schools in the U.S.: What Are the Challenges?" in the journal Foreign Language Annals.

Yue holds a Ph.D. in foreign and second-language education from the State University of New York at Buffalo, an M.A. in teaching Chinese as a foreign language from Middlebury College and an M.A. in British and American literature from Wuhan University. Throughout her academic journey, she has been honored with numerous awards, including tuition scholarships from the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, a scholarship from the "Confucius China Study Plan" by the Confucius Institute at Buffalo and the Stephen A. and Ruth H. Freeman Scholarship from Middlebury College.

This coming academic year at the University of Virginia, she will be teaching second- and third-year Chinese courses, contributing her expertise to the language program. She also plans to continue her research on high-leverage teaching practices and the development of effective foreign-language education methodologies.