Xiangjun Deng is an associate professor in the College of International Studies at Shenzhen University, China, a high-level overseas talent in Shenzhen, and a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge for 2023-2024. She received her doctorate in linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on Mandarin- and/or English-speaking children's grammatical development, syntax and semantics. She published articles in prestigious journals such as Journal of Child Language, International Journal of Bilingualism, First Language, Linguistics, and Journal of Chinese Linguistics. She also published a monograph titled 'Spatial Language and Event Semantics in Mandarin' through China Social Sciences Press, a translated book through Routledge, and a multimedia corpus of child Mandarin—the Tong corpus on CHILDES.