Ming C. Lin

Ming C. Lin
Born
Taiwan
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BS, MS, PhD)
Known for
AwardsIEEE Fellow
ACM Fellow
IEEE VGTC VR Technical Achievement Award
UNC Hettleman Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, College Park
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ThesisEfficient Collision Detection for Animation and Robotics (1994)
Doctoral advisorJohn F. Canny

Ming Chien Lin is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and a Barry Mersky and Capital One Endowed Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is also the former chair of the Department of Computer Science. Prior to moving to Maryland in 2018, Lin was the John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.