Before he joined the University of Iowa, he studied in Tsinghua University (B.S. in Math 2008) in China and obtained his PhD in ACO (Algorithm Combinatorics and Optimization) in 2013 from Tepper School of Business in Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Lin’s research fields involve: 1) large-scale optimization for machine learning; 2) Markov decision making with applications in high-frequency trading and crowdsourcing. He is the winner of Best Student Paper Award of INFORMS Financial Service Section in 2012.