Ching-Yung Lin

Dr. Ching-Yung Lin is the CEO of Graphen, Inc., a startup focusing on developing next-generation Artificial Intelligence technologies, especially solutions for the Finance and Medical industries. Before June 2017, he was Chief Scientist for Graph Computing at IBM and an IBM Distinguished Researcher. He created and led the Network Science and Machine Intelligence department at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University since 2005, an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington from 2003 to 2009 and an Adjunct Professor at NYU in 2014.

Dr. Lin was named an IEEE Fellow in Nov 2011, the first in the area of Network Science. He is an author of 170+ publications and 29 awarded patents. In 2010, IBM Exploratory Research Career Review selected Dr. Lin as one of the five researchers "mostly likely to have the greatest scientific impact for IBM and the world.” His “Big Data Analytics” course at Columbia University attracts over 300 graduate students every year, and is the top search result on Baidu for Big Data Analytics. He led a team of ~40 researchers from Columbia University, CMU, Northeastern University, Northwestern University, UC Berkeley, Stanford Research Institute, Rutgers University, University of Minnesota and NMU in the then largest US social media analysis project from 2012 to 2015. He also led a project focusing on predicting human behavior for cognitive security applications.

In 2015, he was invited to be a panelist together with the White House Chief Data Scientist at the semi-annual conference of the American Medical Association. He was invited as a keynote or plenary speaker at 20+ conferences, including the International Conference on Cybersecurity hosted by the FBI in 2016 and the Expo 2.0 at the New York Javits Convention Center. His work has won seven best paper awards, been shown in 100+ press releases, and was featured four times by BusinessWeek magazine, including Top Story of the Week in May, 2009.