Dr. Sabrina Qin (PhD) is an art and design researcher and Associate Professor at Anhui Normal University. She earned her PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (School of Design) and completed graduate study at Pratt Institute (USA). She was a postdoctoral fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her teaching spans design research methods, arts-based research, AIGC-enabled visual design, and film/photography production. Her research bridges design methodology, digital humanities, and cross-cultural communication, focusing on computational approaches to Chinese poetic aesthetics and emotion-driven metaphor and visual design. Selected works include the monograph Quantitative and Mixed Methods in Design Research (2023) and the article “Shades of Grey: Quantifying a Database of 18 Aesthetic Moods in Classical Chinese Poetry” (Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2024), and she co-developed the online resource www.aestheticemotions.cn.