Yaoyao Ding | Higher Education | Innovative Research Award

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Innovative Research Award

Yaoyao Ding
Communication University of Zhejiang, China
Yaoyao Ding
Affiliation Communication University of Zhejiang
Country China
Google Scholar r9b3EgcAAAAJ
Documents 13
Citations 34
h-index 3
Subject Area Higher Education
Event Top Teachers Awards
Scopus 57814217700
ORCID 0000-0003-1379-8376

Yaoyao Ding, PhD, is a Lecturer and Master’s Supervisor at Communication University of Zhejiang in China. Her academic work focuses on artificial intelligence, digital image creation, AI-enabled education, cultural industries, and the application of digital visual technologies to higher education and rural cultural development. She is described as a provincial-level cultural commissioner and selected outstanding young literary and art talent in Zhejiang Province. Her research combines academic inquiry with applied projects involving cultural revitalization, digital cultural inheritance, and technology-supported creative practice.[1]

Her reported academic record includes 13 documents, 34 citations, and an h-index of 3 in the supplied scholarly profile information. Her publications include work indexed in SCI and SSCI databases, while her research and professional activities span AI-driven visual creation, educational technology, cultural development, and interdisciplinary applications of artificial intelligence.

Abstract

Yaoyao Ding is a researcher and educator whose work is situated at the intersection of artificial intelligence, higher education, digital visual communication, cultural industries, and rural cultural development. Her reported research activities include provincial education and cultural research projects, interdisciplinary collaborations with laboratories and technology enterprises, and applied cultural planning initiatives. Her publication record includes studies of AI-supported art education, image generation, educational equity, cultural industries, rural-to-urban educational migration, and regional economic development.[1][2] The profile also records patents, software copyrights, an academic monograph, and practical projects associated with rural cultural revitalization.

Keywords

Artificial intelligence; higher education; AI education; digital image creation; art education; cultural industry; rural cultural revitalization; digital cultural inheritance; educational technology; visual communication; interdisciplinary research.

Introduction

Yaoyao Ding’s academic profile reflects an interdisciplinary approach to the use of emerging digital technologies in education and cultural practice. Her work addresses both technological development and the social and educational contexts in which AI systems are implemented. This orientation is illustrated by publications addressing image-generation models, AI-enabled art education, educational equity, and cultural adaptation in higher education.[3]

In addition to academic publication, her professional activities include participation in provincial research projects, collaborations with technology enterprises and key laboratories, and applied cultural projects undertaken with local governments. These activities indicate a research profile that connects university-based scholarship with practical cultural and educational applications.

Research Profile

Yaoyao Ding, PhD, is a Lecturer and Master’s Supervisor at Communication University of Zhejiang. The supplied profile identifies her as a provincial-level cultural commissioner and selected outstanding young literary and art talent in Zhejiang Province. Her professional activities include AI-driven digital image creation, higher education research, cultural development, and digital visual practice.

Research areas. Her stated areas of research are AI education and the cultural industry. Related work extends to digital image generation, art education, educational equity, rural cultural revitalization, and the use of AI and digital visual technologies in cultural inheritance.

Completed and ongoing research projects.

  • Zhejiang Provincial Education Science Planning Project (2025): “Research on the Cultivation Mechanism of Art Students’ Creativity in Universities under the Background of Artificial Intelligence,” February 2025–January 2028.
  • Key Open Project of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Machine Vision and Intelligent Control (2025): “Research on LLM-Driven Video Motion Recognition for Enhanced AI Content Generation,” December 2025–December 2027.
  • Theoretical Research Project of Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles (2025): “Research on the Construction Path and Evaluation System of High-Quality Literary and Art Creation in Zhejiang Province,” September 2025–June 2026.

Consultancy and industry projects. The profile reports responsibility for a rural cultural upgrading reconstruction planning project in Maming Village, Tongxiang, with a total investment of RMB 26 million, and leadership of the planning and construction of Hu Ju Lin Memorial Hall with government investment of RMB 5 million.

Professional memberships.

  • Member of the Chinese Film Literature Society.
  • Member of the Chinese Film Art Society.
  • Member of the Screenwriter Committee of the China Film Production Industry Association.
  • Member of the Zhejiang Photographers Association.

Collaborations. Reported collaborations include industrial cooperation with internet technology enterprises, joint research with provincial key laboratories, rural cultural revitalization cooperation with local governments, and interdisciplinary academic cooperation.

Research Contributions

Yaoyao Ding’s reported contributions combine empirical research, technological development, educational application, and cultural practice. Her work examines how intelligent teaching aids can support learning outcomes in less-developed areas and how academic findings can be translated into practical programmes for local cultural development.

A second strand of contribution concerns AI-oriented media teaching for university students. This work seeks to advance the localized implementation of AI technologies in higher art education and to connect technological innovation with rural cultural construction and digital cultural inheritance.

Her technical and applied portfolio also includes intellectual property related to intelligent devices, art-design equipment, anti-piracy systems, film derivative platforms, movie-poster communication, and short-video exchange platforms.

Patents and Software Copyrights

  1. “An Intelligent Classified Garbage Bin,” Utility Model Patent No. ZL201921699074.3, granted June 12, 2020.
  2. “An Art Design Workbench,” Utility Model Patent No. ZL201921968113.5, granted July 21, 2020.
  3. “Cinema Electronic Equipment Anti-Piracy Shooting System V1.0,” Computer Software Copyright Registration No. 2020SR1909274, registered August 31, 2020.
  4. “Film Derivatives Development and Trading Platform V1.0,” Computer Software Copyright Registration No. 2020SR1881014, registered July 31, 2020.
  5. “Movie Poster Enthusiast Communication Platform V1.0,” Computer Software Copyright Registration No. 2020SR1881038, registered June 30, 2020.
  6. “Xiangyu: Online Exchange Platform for Beautiful Countryside Short Videos V1.0,” Computer Software Copyright Registration No. 2020SR1881039, registered September 30, 2020.

Publications

The supplied publication record includes seven journal articles published between 2024 and 2026 in journals identified as SCI and/or SSCI indexed. Several articles address AI, education, visual technologies, cultural industries, and social or economic development. The supplied profile reports six papers as first or corresponding author in SSCI/SCI top journals over the preceding five years and one academic monograph. [2][3][4][5][6][7]

  1. Ding, Y., Zhang, R., & Zou, Y. (2024). “An integrative study on the green cultural industry and its determinants in Jiangsu province, China under the cultural revitalization initiative, a global perspective.” Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1328121.
  2. Ding, Y., Zhu, X., & Zou, Y. (2024). “Contour wavelet diffusion: A fast and high-quality image generation model.” Computational Intelligence, 40(2), e12644.
  3. Ding, Y., Li, Z., Zou, Y., & Dong, X. (2025). “A DeepSeek cross-modal platform for personalized art education in Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Scientific Reports, 15(1), 44800.
  4. Chen, J., Ding, Y., Zhang, H., Dong, X., & Zhou, P. (2026). “Research on cross-regional adaptation strategies for AI-enabled teaching devices from an educational equity perspective.” PLOS ONE.
  5. Ye, H., Ding, Y., Zhang, R., & Zou, Y. (2025). “A Study on the Correlation Between Urbanization and Agricultural Economy Based on Efficiency Measurement and Quantile Regression, Evidence from China.” Sustainability, 17(13), 5908.
  6. Ding, Y., & Zou, Y. (2026). “Cultural adaptation and identity reconstruction among rural-to-urban educational migrants in Chinese higher education: A dynamic integration perspective.” International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 113, 102412.
  7. Bao, W., Zhang, H., Ding, Y., Shen, F., & Li, L. (2024). “EdgeNet, a low-power image recognition model based on small sample information.” Pattern Analysis and Applications.

Academic Monograph

Ding, Y. (2026). Village Lights Emerge: A New Landscape of Rural Cultural Tourism Integrated with Art and Technology. Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing House. ISBN: 978-7-0000-0000-0.

Research Impact

The supplied citation information records 34 citations and an h-index of 3, with 13 documents associated with the Google Scholar profile information provided for this article. The reported publications have been included in SCI and SSCI citation databases. Citation counts are time-dependent and may vary among scholarly indexing platforms.[1]

The supplied Google Scholar citation figures for the five highlighted publications indicate citation counts of 10, 6, 5, 3, and 3 respectively. These figures are presented as supplied profile data and should be interpreted as snapshots rather than permanent bibliometric values.

Award Suitability

For the stated Top Teachers Awards event, the supplied record provides several areas that may be relevant to an academic recognition assessment. These include sustained university teaching and supervision responsibilities, interdisciplinary research involving artificial intelligence and education, publication in international indexed journals, participation in provincial research projects, applied cultural-development work, and professional engagement with academic and industry organizations.[1]

The profile also identifies practical activities connecting academic research with rural cultural revitalization and digital cultural inheritance. Such activities provide an applied dimension to the research portfolio, particularly where digital visual technologies and AI are used in educational and cultural settings.

The evidence supplied for this article supports consideration of Yaoyao Ding’s profile in relation to research innovation, educational technology, interdisciplinary scholarship, and practical cultural engagement. Formal award eligibility, selection criteria, nomination status, and final recognition remain matters for the relevant awarding organization and should be verified against its current requirements.[8]

Conclusion

Yaoyao Ding’s supplied academic profile presents a multidisciplinary research trajectory centered on artificial intelligence, higher education, digital image creation, cultural industries, and rural cultural development. Her record combines peer-reviewed publications and reported citation activity with research projects, intellectual property, professional memberships, an academic monograph, and applied cultural initiatives.[1]

The combination of AI-oriented educational research, digital visual technology, cultural research, and practical community-oriented projects provides a coherent basis for describing her work as interdisciplinary academic and applied research. The record also demonstrates an emphasis on translating research concepts into educational and cultural practices.

References

  1. Google Scolar. (n.d.). author details: Yaoyao Ding,. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=r9b3EgcAAAAJ
  2. Ding, Y., Zhang, R., & Zou, Y. (2024). An integrative study on the green cultural industry and its determinants in Jiangsu province, China under the cultural revitalization initiative, a global perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1328121. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1328121
  3. Ding, Y., Zhu, X., & Zou, Y. (2024). Contour wavelet diffusion: A fast and high-quality image generation model. Computational Intelligence, 40(2), e12644. https://doi.org/10.1111/coin.12644
  4. Ding, Y., Li, Z., Zou, Y., & Dong, X. (2025). A DeepSeek cross-modal platform for personalized art education in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 44800. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-28518-0
  5. Ye, H., Ding, Y., Zhang, R., & Zou, Y. (2025). A Study on the Correlation Between Urbanization and Agricultural Economy Based on Efficiency Measurement and Quantile Regression, Evidence from China. Sustainability, 17(13), 5908. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17135908
  6. Ding, Y., & Zou, Y. (2026). Cultural adaptation and identity reconstruction among rural-to-urban educational migrants in Chinese higher education: A dynamic integration perspective. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 113, 102412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2026.102412
  7. Bao, W., Zhang, H., Ding, Y., Shen, F., & Li, L. (2024). EdgeNet, a low-power image recognition model based on small sample information. Pattern Analysis and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-024-01289-6
  8. Top Teachers Awards. (n.d.). Top Teachers Awards. https://topteachers.net/