Tianyi Lin joined the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at Columbia University in 2024. His research interests lie in optimization, game theory, machine learning, applied probability, social network, and their applications to data science.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. From 2023 to 2024, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to that, he received a B.S. in Mathematics from Nanjing University, a M.S. in Pure Mathematics and Statistics from University of Cambridge and a M.S. in Operations Research from UC Berkeley.