Dennis K.J. Lin

Dennis K.J. Lin is a Taiwanese-American statistician, who works in the areas of design of experiments, quality assurance, data mining, and data science.

Education and early life
He was born in Taiwan, ROC, and obtained a bachelor's degree (in mathematics) in June 1981 from National Tsing-Hua University, ROC. He received a Ph.D. (in statistics) in December 1988 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a minor in computer science.

Career and research
From 1995 to 2020, Lin worked as a statistician for Pennsylvania State University, and became a university distinguished professor. Since July 2020, he has been the head at the department of statistics at Purdue University.

Lin published a total of over 200 papers in professional journals.

Lin is known for his contributions to the design of experiments, industrial statistics and Ghost Data.

Professional fellowships

 * Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2013)
 * Elected Fellow, American Society for Quality (2006)
 * Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association (1998)
 * Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (1994)
 * (Elected) Fellow, Royal Statistical Society (1988)