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 Foreign Language Annals.

She 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.