She received her PhD from University of California, Riverside in 2005. Her research interests encompass broad areas of data mining and machine learning, on large-scale multimedia datasets including time series, spatiotemporal databases, text, and images. Dr. Lin teaches advanced topics on data mining at GMU, concentrating on mining multimedia and high-dimensional data. Her research work is partially funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Army, Naval Research Lab, and Intel Corporation.