PING YANG received his PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University. Dr Yang is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Western Sydney University. He was an Academic Program Advisor for the postgraduate TESOL courses from 2012 to 2024. His teaching, research, HDR supervision and publication areas include intercultural verbal communication, intercultural nonverbal communication, cultural linguistics, socio-semiotics, educational linguistics, language teacher education, and translation studies. He has developed a placement-based subject, TESOL Internship, which enriches students' work-integrated learning (WIL) experience and makes the graduates job-ready. He has coordinated the WIL-oriented core subject for the past 15 years, building and maintaining collaborative partnerships with many vocational and education training (VET) providers, such as MTC Future Ready, Navitas Skilled Future, NSW TAFE colleges, The College, and private ELICOS colleges and centres in Greater Sydney areas. His teaching and coordinating experience have enabled him to publish on the WIL topic and contribute to the relevant research literature.

He is Editor of Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E (WoS), SAGE Open (Humanities; Scopus, SSCI), and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Scopus, SSCI, AHCI), and guest editor of Education Sciences (Scopus, WoS). He has been frequently invited to review manuscripts for many international peer-reviewed journals of different disciplines. He has also been invited to review book manuscripts for Routledge, SAGE, Springer Nature, and Pearson.