Prof. Yin received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Younan Xia. He became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003, working with Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos, and then a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2005. He joined the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside in 2006 and became a Full Professor in 2014. He received some honors and awards, including the Cottrell Scholar Award (2009), DuPont Young Professor Grant (2010), 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant (2010), NSF CAREER award (2010), MRS Fellow (2020), Langmuir Lectureship Award (2022), and recognition as one of the world's highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics from 2014 to 2024.