Professor Yin Liao is the Director of Research at the Department of Applied Finance and Co-director of Faculty Research Center on Nature Positive Finance and Business. She joined Macquarie University from July, 2019. Prior to that, she held positions at the Australian National University and Queensland University of Technology. She received a Master in Economics and a PhD in Financial Econometrics from the Australian National University.

Yin's main research interests include FinTech, Household Finance, Sustainable Finance, and Financial Econometrics. Her research publications have appeared in top-tier business, finance and economics journals, including Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business and Economic statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Energy Economics, etc.

Yin has worked extensively in analysing personal and small businesses' big and unstructured data, has collaborated with many industry partners, such as banks (i.e., CBA, ICBC), brokerage houses (i.e., Futu) and FinTech firms (i.e., Prospa). She has secured competitive external research grants from 2 ARC Linkage Projects, 1 ARC Discovery Project, 1 Philanthropy Foundation project, and 6 MQ-industry Linkage projects. Currently Yin is leading a research group with 2 postdoc, 4 PhD students and 5 Mres students. She is an Associate Editor of PLOS One, and Guest Editor of the International Review of Financial Analysis.