Ziyun Deng is a Dean’s Global Education Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also serves as a faculty advisor for the Human Development and Education program at HGSE. Her work focuses on the language skills that adolescents and young adults utilize in response to controversies and dilemmas, particularly in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contexts. She has developed novel instruments to examine the lexical, grammatical, and discourse complexity of adolescents’ argumentative writing, which have been awarded by the Yidan Foundation and American Educational Research Association (AERA). Ziyun graduated with a B.A. in English language and literature from Peking University in China and worked as an advisor to undergraduates at Harvard College.