Dr. Ge is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Education and Languages, and Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Bilingual Learning and Teaching, Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU). She obtained her MPhil and PhD in Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on language and cognitive development in typical and atypical populations, including autistic children, bilingual childrenand second language learners. She has led and conducted different externally funded research projects from RGC, HMRF, and NSSF-China. Her work has appeared in top-tier SSCI-indexed journals, including Autism, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Applied Psycholinguistics, and First Language. She is the recipient of the Faculty Advancement Fund and Outstanding Research Publication Award at HKMU.

Dr. Ge has the qualification to administer and code the Autism Diagnostic Observation ScheduleSecond Edition (ADOS-2) (a gold-standard instrument for diagnosing autism) for clinical andresearch reliability. Over the years, she has provided professional assessments and diagnoses to hundreds of autistic children in Hong Kong. Her evidence-based research has been covered extensively by the media and widely shared with parents and professionals in the community. 

• Childhood Bilingualism
• Language Development of Children with ASD
• Second Language Acquisition
• Corpus Linguistics

Research Grants

• 2022 – 2023, Principal Investigator. Learner engagement in listening-and-speaking tasks in the face-to-face and the synchronous computer-mediated communication conditions. Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. HK$655,953 (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H18/21)
• 2020 – 2022, Principal Investigator. The impact of bilingual exposure on the language development of Cantonese-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. HK$659,438 (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H13/19)
• 2023 -2025, Co-Investigator. 自閉症譜系障礙兒童在語言加工中的心理表徵實驗研究 [Experimental studies on mental representations during the language processing among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder]. 國家社會科學基金 [National Social Science Fund of China]. CNY$200,000
• 2020 – 2022, Co-Investigator. Perception and production of the Putonghua tone of non-Chinese speaking South Asian ethnic minority students in Hong Kong. Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. HK$575,100 (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H15/19)
• 2021 – 2023, Co-Investigator. A corpus-based study of the acquisition of quantifiers. Guangdong Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science. CNY$50,000 (Project No.: GD20CWY16).

• 2023 – 2025, Principal Investigator. The acquisition of restrictive focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. HK$199,500 (Project No.: RD/2023/1.9)
• 2022 – 2023, Principal Investigator. The role of parental input in the language development of Cantonese-English bilingual children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Hong Kong: A corpus study. Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. HK$195,400 (Project No.: RD/2021/02)
• 2019 – 2020, Principal Investigator. The use of prosody in pragmatic comprehension by Cantonese-speaking children with high-functioning autism. Katie Shu Sui Pui Charitable Trust – Research and Publication Fund. HK$97,247 (Project No.: KS2018/2.2)
• 2023 – 2024, Co-Investigator. Instant message-delivered positive psychotherapy (I-PPT) to promote well-being in caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A mixed methods evaluation of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. HK$199,538 (Project No.: RD/2023/1.20)
• 2019, Co-Investigator. A pilot study on analyzing HKEAA English argumentative essays for learning and teaching in Hong Kong secondary schools. School Research Grant, The Open University of Hong KongHK$60,000 (Project No.: R4086 & R4087) 

• Ad hoc reviewer for Applied Psycholinguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Laboratory Phonology, Lingua, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Studies in Prosodic Grammar