Ming C. Lin is currently a Distinguished University Professor and former Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science at the University of Maryland College Park and John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor Emerita of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. She is also an Amazon Scholar under Amazon Robotics. She was also an Honorary Visiting Chair Professor at Tsinghua University in China and at University of Technology Sydney in Australia. She obtained her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She received several honors and awards, including the NSF Young Faculty Career Award, Honda Research Initiation Award, UNC/IBM Junior Faculty Development Award, UNC Hettleman Award for Scholarly Achievements, Beverly W. Long Distinguished Professorship, UNC WOWS Scholar, IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award, Washington Academy of Sciences Distinguished Career Award in Computer Science, and many best paper awards at international conferences.

She is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors, ACM, IEEE, AASF, Eurographics, SIGGRAPH Academy, and IEEE VR Academy. Her research interests include AI/ML, computational robotics, differential physics & programming, physically-based modeling & simulation, virtual reality, sound rendering, haptics, and geometric computing. She has (co-)authored more than 400 refereed publications in these areas and co-edited/authored four books. She has served on hundreds of program committees of leading conferences and co-chaired dozens of international conferences and workshops. She is currently an elected member of Computing Research Association (and its Executive Committee) and a member of Computing Research Association-Women (CRA-W) Board of Directors, Chair of IEEE Computer Society's Harry H. Goode Memorial Award Committee and CRA Major Awards Committee. She was a former Chair of IEEE Computer Society (CS) Transactions Operating Committee and IEEE CS Computer Pioneer Award, and Founding Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. She is a former member of IEEE CS Board of Governors, a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2011-2014), a former Chair of IEEE CS Transactions Operations Committee, and a member of several editorial boards. She also has served on several steering committees and advisory boards of international conferences, as well as government and industrial technical advisory committees.

Many of her research findings have been patented and licensed by more than 70 companies world wide. She also co-founded Impulsonic, Inc. which was a 3D audio technology company that created physics-based audio spatialization software for game developers and VR systems. Impulsonic was acquired by Valve in 2016 and its product, PHONON, an interactive audio software toolkit continues to be available through Valve’s SteamAudio.