Ye Hailin, vice president, researcher and doctoral supervisor of National Institute of International Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; president of Chinese Association for South Asian Studies; vice president of the China Society of Emerging Economies; director of the Center for South Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Associate Editor-in-Chief of South Asian Studies.

The main research fields are South Asian regional relations, strategic science, anti-terrorism and non-traditional security research. Academic representative works include: Sino-Indian Relations in 21st Century: Theory Innovation and Strategy Recommendations, Pakistan, War Of Space (translated works), and other over 70 academic papers.