Dr. Hong got her Ph.D. degree from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2018. Her Ph.D. thesis was awarded N V Varghese Prize for Comparative Education in the same year. Now, she is a lecturer at the School of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Her research area focuses on the internationalization of higher education, international student mobility and higher education policy. Her work was published in several well-known international peer-reviewed journals, such as Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education Research & Development, etc.