Professor Grace Lin is VP, Director of the Big Data Research Center, and Chair Professor at the Department of Business Administration, Asia University in Taichung, Taiwan in June, 2016. She is also a Chair Professor at the Chinese Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, INFORMS Fellow and VP for International Activities.

From 2011 to 2016, Dr. Lin was the VP and Founder for the Data Analytics Technology and Applications (DATA) Institute and VP for the Advanced Research Institute (ARI) at the Institute for Information Industry (III), where she initiated key industry- government R&D programs including Smart Living Strategy Plan, Big Data Analytics, Smart Healthcare, Smart Tourism, FinTech and Smart Agriculture.

Previously, Dr. Lin worked for IBM US for more than 16 years as the Global Sense and Respond Value Net Leader and the Director for Innovation and Emerging Solutions at IBM Global Business Services, and as a Research Staff Member, Manager and Senior Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. She was an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and a Relationship Man- ager for IBM Integrated Supply Chain. She has also served as an Adjunct Full Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at Colum- bia University, New York, and an Adjunct Chair Professor, Soochow University, Taiwan.

For most of Dr. Lin’s career, she has been widely considered a leader, innovator, and educator in Big Data Analytics, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Value Net Optimiza- tion, and Intelligent Manufacturing. At IBM, she and her R&D team pioneered the Ex- tended Enterprise SCM. She also initiated IBM’s Sense-and-Respond Value Net efforts and founded the Value Chain Innovation Center, then later created Sense-and- Respond consulting offerings, bringing state-of-the-art business models and technology to IBM and its global customers in both public and private sectors.

Her background and experience have positioned Dr. Lin at the intersection of technol- ogy, innovation, business consulting, and management, the fusion of business and IT, and the interaction of academia and industry. Referred by Forrester as one of the six “Supply Chain Gurus,” Dr. Lin has published more than 80 technical papers, book chap- ters, and articles, and co-authored several patents.

Her awards include the INFORMS’ Franz Edelman Award, IBM’s Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, the IIE Doctoral Dissertation Award, and Purdue’s Outstanding Industrial Engineer Award.