Lin Yi-bing


Lin Yi-bing or Jason Lin is a Taiwanese academic who has served as the Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao Tung University since 1995, and since 2002, the Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Management, at Providence University, a Catholic university in Taiwan. He also serves as Vice President of the National Chiao Tung University.

Brief biography

Lin entered the National Cheng Kung University in 1980 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1983. In 1985, he undertook a doctorate program at the University of Washington, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1990. His research interests include personal communications, mobile computing, intelligent network signaling, computer telephony integration, and parallel simulation. He has developed an Internet of Things 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.

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