Chien-Yu Lin

Chien-Yu earned a Bachelors of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literature from the National Taiwan University followed by a Masters degree in Education Psychology and Counseling from the National Chao Tung University in Taiwan. To continue her studies, she moved to the United States and earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. Chien-Yu also holds a Certificate of Teaching English in Secondary Education and a Certificate of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL).

In addition to her work with PandaTree, Chien-Yu currently works as an instructional designer, developing online training materials for DMS International in Maryland. She also teaches Mandarin part-time at the Raleigh Chinese Language School. Previously, as a graduate student at the University of Maryland she supervised Mandarin teacher interns. She has also worked as an English-to-Mandarin translator for the Taiwanese Ministry of Education, translating educational news from the United States. Chien-Yu has co-authored a number of academic papers and presented at conferences, with much of her research focused on second language reading strategies and reading comprehension.