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Ming C. Lin received her B.S., M.S., Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1988, 1991, 1993 respectively from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. Prior to joining UNC, she was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at both Naval Postgraduate School and North Carolina A&T State University, and a Program Manager at the U.S. Army Research Office.

She received several honors and awards, including the NSF Young Faculty Career Award in 1995, Honda Research Initiation Award in 1997, UNC/IBM Junior Faculty Development Award in 1999, UNC Hettleman Award for Scholarly Achievements in 2002, and best paper awards at Army Science Conference 1996, Eurographics 1999, Eurographics 2002, and ACM Symposium in Solid Modeling and Applications 2003, and IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2005.

Her research interests include physically-based modeling, haptics, robotics, real-time 3D graphics for virtual environments, geometric computing, and distributed interactive simulation. She has served as a program committee member for many leading conferences on virtual reality, computer graphics, robotics and computational geometry. She was the organizer, general chair and/or program chair of several conferences, including the ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry 1996, ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications 1999, Workshop on Intelligent Human Augementation and Virtual Environments 2002, ACM SIGGRAPH / EG Symposium on Computer Animation 2003, ACM Workshop on General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors 2004, Eurographics 2005, Computer Animation and Social Agents 2005, and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2006. She also serves on the Steering Committee of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation and IEEE World Haptics Conference, and NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) Committee of Visitors.

She has served as an associate editor or guest editor of several journals and magazines, including IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization, the International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, and ACM Computing Reviews in Computer Graphics. She also co-edited the book "Applied Computation Geometry."