His research interests include design and analysis of crosslayer interdependent networks (such as optical/IP-over-WDM, cloud, and transportation networks), network optimization, mathematical programming, graph theory, and game theory. He received the Best Paper Award at GLOBECOM 2015, and the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at DRCN 2011 and RNDM 2012. Dr. Lin received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma, USA in 2011, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from the National Chiao Tong University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.