
Prof. Lin is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to that, he was with the Department of Computer Science of University of Toronto and Stanford University. He received his BS degree at Fuzhou University, MS degree at Beijing University and PhD at Stanford University. His research interests is in artificial intelligence, and in particular, principles of knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning and their applications in programming languages, robotics, multiagent systems, game theory and social choice theory, language understanding etc. He is an AAAI Fellow and received a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship.
Last updated: 4/10/2026