Lin Yi-bing
Taiwanese computer scientist
Lin Yi-bing (Chinese: 林一平; pinyin: Lín Yīpíng; born October 26, 1961), also known by his English name Jason Lin, is a Taiwanese computer scientist who was a minister at the National Science and Technology Council from 2014 to 2015. He has been the Winbond Chair Professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University since 1995 and a chair professor of computer science at Providence University since 2002.
Education
Lin graduated from National Cheng Kung University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in electrical engineering in 1983. He then completed doctoral studies in the United States, where he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1990 under computer scientist Ed Lazowska. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Understanding the limits of optimistic and conservative parallel simulation".
Career
His research interests include personal communications, mobile computing, intelligent network signaling, computer telephony integration, and parallel simulation. He has developed an Internet of Things (IoT) platform called IoTtalk. This platform has been used for sustainable applications including AgriTalk for intelligent agriculture, EduTalk for intelligent education, CampusTalk for intelligent university campus, and so on.
From 1983 to 1985, he served as a second lieutenant instructor at the Communication and Electronics School of the ROC Army in Taiwan. From 1990 to 1995, he worked as a research scientist in the Applied Research Area at Bell Communications Research in Morristown, New Jersey.
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