Professor Lin is also the President of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics Bay Area Chapter and a Research Associate at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is one of the seven economists selected to serve on the California State Controller's Council of Economic Advisors. She was formerly the Fossil Fuels Tract Director of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program of the UC-Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. Professor Lin's fields of interest are environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, industrial organization, and applied microeconomics. Among her current areas of research are the petroleum industry, renewable energy, natural resources, environmental regulation, and air quality.