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Education
- Ph.D., Computing, University of Utah, 2022
- M.S., Control Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2013
- B.S., Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2010
Lin Yan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Iowa State University. She received her Ph.D. in computing from the University of Utah in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Bei Wang Phillips. She received her BS and MS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental Science & Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory from 2022-2023. Her research interests include topological data analysis and visualization. Her recent work focuses on problems involving large and complex forms of data by combining topological, and statistical data analysis, machine learning, and visualization techniques.