Ming C. Lin is currently a Distinguished University Professor and former Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science at the University of Maryland College Park and John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor Emerita of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill.  She was also an Honorary Visiting Chair Professor at Tsinghua University in China and at University of Technology Sydney in Australia.  She obtained her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. 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 2003, Beverly W. Long Distinguished Professorship 2007-2010, UNC WOWS Scholar 2009-2011, IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award in 2010, and many best paper awards at international conferences.  She is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and Eurographics, as well as a member of SIGGRAPH Academy.   

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Her research interests include computational robotics, haptics, physically-based modeling, virtual reality, sound rendering, and geometric computing. She has (co-)authored more than 300 refereed publications in these areas and co-edited/authored four books. She has served on hundreds of program committees of leading conferences and co-chaired dozens of international conferences and workshops. She is currently a member of Computing Research Association-Women (CRA-W) Board of Directors, Chair of IEEE Computer Society (CS) Transactions Operating Committee, Chair of IEEE CS Computer Pioneer Award, and Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. She is a former member of IEEE CS Board of Governors, a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2011-2014), a former Chair of IEEE CS Transactions Operations Committee, and a member of several editorial boards. She also has served on several steering committees and advisory boards of international conferences, as well as government and industrial technical advisory committees.

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Many of Lin’s research findings have been patented and licensed by more than 50 companies world wide.  She also co-founded Impulsonic, Inc. which was a 3D audio technology company that created physics-based audio spatialization software for game developers and VR systems.  Impulsonic was acquired by Valve in 2016 and its product, PHONON, an interactive audio software toolkit continues to be available through Valve’s SteamAudio.   

<!- 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 Course/Tutorial Program, Computer Animation and Social Agents 2005, Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2006, Workshop on Edge Computing Using New Commodity Architectures 2006, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2007, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2007, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2008, Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena 2009, International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics 2010, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2010, and
Pacific Graphics 2011. 

She is a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2011-2014.  She has served as an associate editor and guest editor of several journals and magazines, including IEEE TVCG, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Computers & Graphics, Computer Aided Design, the International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Conference Editorial Board, World Haptics Conference Editorial Board, Frontier in Virtual Reality, the International Journal on Virtual Reality, and ACM Computing Reviews.

She is currently a member of the IEEE Computer Society (CS) Board of Governors,
a member of Computing Research Association-Women (CRA-W)  Board of Directors, 
the Chair of the 2015 IEEE CS Transactions Operations Committee and 
a member of 2015 Executive Committee of IEEE CS Publications Board. 
She also has served on the Steering/Executive Committees of IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (Chair, 2010-2011) and of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Executive Committee of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics, Paper Advisory Board of Eurographics 2009 & 2015, Best Paper Award Committee of IEEE Visualization Conference, Advisory Board of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and Computer Soceity Technical Committee on Haptics, Conference Board of IEEE Haptic Symposium, the Software Technical Advisory Board of AGEIA Inc, NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) Committee of Visitors, and several other technical advisory boards for the government agencies, industry, and the international scientific research community.

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