Dr. Hua (Sara) Zhong obtained her PhD at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Currently she is an associate professor of Department of Sociology and Associate Director of Sustainable Development and Social Governance Lab at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been a visiting scholar at University of Maryland, Utrecht University, University of California Irvine, Cambridge University, and the National Australian University. Her primary research interest lies in how social development and modernization affect the patterns and trends of crime, delinquency, and victimization, with a focus on vulnerable social groups. In recent years, she has paid special attention to the potential changes of human behaviors and life experiences brought by the rapid technology advancement. Currently she has several ongoing projects on social mechanisms of cyber fraud, cyberbullying, and internet addiction, using computational methods, social experiments and large-scale self-reported surveys. Since 2022, she has been honored to serve as the project leader in China for the fourth wave of the International Self-Report Delinquency Survey (ISRD4), which is being conducted across 35 nations. The fifth wave, ISRD5, is now preparing to launch. Her publications have appeared in reputable journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Interpersonal Violence,  Crime and Delinquency, Feminist Criminology, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, and Trauma, Violence & abuse etc. She is also serving as the President of the Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice in the US (ACCCJ), and the Vice-Chairperson of the Asian Criminological Society.