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Yi-Tzer Lin was born on October 29, 1955 in Taiwan. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1977, the M.S. degree in control engineering in 1980, both from the Feng-Chia University in Taiwan, the M.S. degree in operations research together with a Computer-Integrated-Manufacturing Systems (CIMS) certificate and the Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and 1994, respectively.

He was associated with the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan from 1982 to 1987. During that period, he had held lead engineering positions and department management positions in factory automation and electronic manufacturing systems.

His research interests include modeling and analysis of distributed manufacturing systems and information systems, factory automation and control, and object-oriented simulation. He is a member of IIE, SME, IEEE.