Yaxin is a researcher with a multidisciplinary background in human-computer interaction, service design, and journalism. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Shandong University, China, and her master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, UK. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fellow, she is doing double Ph.D. degrees at Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) and RMIT University (Australia).