Previously, Yin worked for five years as a System Engineering with Motorola Infrastructure Company in Hangzhou, China, and as Assistant Professor at Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark. During his time at AAU, he developed the SAGE algorithm with Bernard Henri Fleury. He holds a B.S. in Optoelectronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in wireless communications from Aalborg University.