Dr. Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research in computational social science uses advanced natural language processing models and statistical methods to measure latent political concepts, with applications to polarization, courts, policy study, and legislative politics. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Humanities and Social Science Communications, and in the Oxford Handbook of Methodological Pluralism in Political Science. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science and Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) from Washington University in St. Louis.
