Xinyue received her M.A. in Chinese Literature and Culture from Stanford University. Her research interests include contemporary Chinese literature and media, memory studies, and the cultural analysis of generative AI and platform interfaces.

Her dissertation examines everyday memory practices in contemporary Chinese digital media, including photograph colorization and animation, AI-assisted memoir writing, and prompt-based visualization of the past. She theorizes these practices as “generative memory-making,” an emerging mode of memory reconstruction mediated by user-machine collaboration, platform interfaces, and generative technologies, and asks what is at stake when remembering becomes an act of algorithmic rendering.