Ping JIN is currently a professor, Associate Dean (Research), and Academic Leader of Composition & Theory at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Before returning to China in 2008, he was a tenured professor and Chair of Composition and Music Theory at the State University of New York. He has also served as a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, a professor in the Digital Arts Department of the School of Software and Microelectronics at Peking University, and Chair of the Composition Department at the China Conservatory of Music.

Ping JIN has composed a substantial body of orchestral, chamber, and Chinese orchestral works. His compositions have been performed by renowned orchestras such as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra, National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Academia China, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, Liaoning Symphony Orchestra, Harbin Symphony Orchestra, Newstead Trio, Earplay, and Plural Ensemble. His works have been widely performed in the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Japan, Mexico, and other countries. He has received numerous accolades, including the First Prize in the National Art Song Competition, the Golden Bell Award for Chinese ensemble composition, and the highest individual project award from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for his sextet. His symphonic poem An Odyssey was selected as a supported work under the Symphony of the Times – Chinese Symphonic Music Composition Support Plan by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

A pioneering figure in the field of computer music in China, Ping JIN began systematically introducing the Max software to the Central Conservatory of Music and the China Conservatory of Music in 2004. Under his guidance, students presented China's first interactive computer music concert at the 2006 Beijing Modern Music Festival, marking a milestone in the development of computer music in China. After returning to China in 2008, he dedicated himself to computer music education, establishing a comprehensive curriculum for undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the Central Conservatory of Music. His efforts have nurtured a new generation of composers and artists in the fields of computer music and new media composition.

From 2010 to 2015, Ping JIN served as Director of the Electronic Music Center in the Digital Arts Department of the School of Software and Microelectronics at Peking University, where he worked to integrate digital media with computer music and promote interdisciplinary research and creation in new media art in China.

His work The Travels of Mariko Horo, an interactive 3D virtual reality installation and dance collaboration with Tamiko Thiel, premiered at the 2006 Munich Festival for Contemporary Dance and won the Munich City Government's New Media Art Award. His interactive dance work The Rhyme of Tang Dynasty premiered at SIGGRAPH 2007, an international computer multimedia art exhibition in the United States. He has also created three interactive new media stage works: A Reflection in the Brook (2013), for female dancer, solo violin, and live computer music; Lost Voices (2015), for female singer/dancer and live computer music; and A Ferry Tale (2016), an interactive musical theatre piece for folk singers, live computer music, and 3D projections. This trilogy, centered on women, explored the application of new technology and interactive performance in presenting traditional Chinese cultural elements, offering valuable insights and inspiration for new media music creation in China.

Dedicated to introducing Chinese works and young Chinese composers to the West, Ping JIN curated New Voices from China in 2004, a concert at Bard College in the United States featuring works by eight Chinese composers under the age of 30 from the Central Conservatory, the Shanghai Conservatory, and the Sichuan Conservatory. In 2009 and 2011, in collaboration with the Schoenberg family and the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, he established the Schoenberg Academy, funding young Chinese composers, conductors, performers, and singers to study, research, and perform in Vienna. Several dozen young faculty members and students from the Central Conservatory, the Shanghai Conservatory, the China Conservatory, the Sichuan Conservatory, and the Shenyang Conservatory have participated in this program.

To introduce influential academic texts to China, Ping JIN has overseen the translation and publication of The Study of Orchestration (by Samuel Adler), Computer Music Tutorial (by Curtis Roads), and The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation (by Arnold Schoenberg).

Ping JIN has served as President of the Society for New Music in the United States, Chair of the Jury for the Davenport Orchestral Composition Competition, a Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Music Director of the Beijing International Electronic Music Festival (MUSICACOUSTICA-BEIJING), and Chair of the 2023 International Computer Music Conference. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Musicology at the Central Conservatory of Music, a key research base for humanities and social sciences designated by the Ministry of Education, and a board member of the International Computer Music Association.

Ping JIN graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, studying composition under Xiaogang YE and Mingxin DU. In 1990, he moved to the United States, where he earned his master's and doctoral degrees from Syracuse University and the University of Cincinnati, respectively, studying under Joseph Downing, Dan Godfrey, Joel Hoffman, and Samuel Adler.