Wei-Ann Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at National Central University, Taiwan. His research interests include computer experiment, uncertainty quantification, machine learning, and applications of statistics in engineering.

Industrial Collaboration

In addition to academic research, Wei-Ann Lin works on statistical collaboration for industrial design and decision-making problems. His consulting experience includes confidential projects related to engineering design, defense-oriented industrial systems, and chemical formulation optimization. Since many of these projects involve proprietary information, they are described here only in broad terms.

Relevant areas include computer experiments, Bayesian optimization, uncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling, design of experiments, reliability-oriented modeling, and statistical analysis for complex engineering systems.

Education

Wei-Ann Lin received a Ph.D. at the Department of Statistics at National Cheng Kung University in 2025. He was jointly advised by Profs. Ray-Bing Chen and Profs. Chih-Li Sung. He also received a B.S in mathematics and an M.S. in statistics from National Cheng Kung University in 2016 and 2018, respectively.

News

• [Dec 2026] I am scheduled to give an invited talk at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Statistical Association and NCCU Department of Statistics 60th Anniversary International Conference.
• [Jun 2026] I am scheduled to give an invited talk at the 35th South Taiwan Statistics Conference.
• [May 2026] I gave a contributed talk at the IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Engineering, Science and Technology.
• I am happy to share that I have joined the Department of Methematics at National Central University as an Assistant Professor since August, 2025.
• [Mar 2025] The paper “On the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition-based emulation of spatio-temporal evolutions of turbulent wakes with fundamental frequencies” has been published in American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Journal.
• [Aug 2024] The paper “Category tree Gaussian process for computer experiments with many-category qualitative factors and application to cooling system design” has been published in Journal of Quality Technology.
• [Feb 2023] The paper “Risk Assessment and Enhancement Suggestions for Automated Driving Systems through Examining Testing Collision and Disengagement Reports” has been published in Journal of Advanced Transportation.
• [Feb 2023] The paper “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Cardiovascular Diseases With Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors Versus Sulfonylureas in Type 2 Diabetes Patients” has been published in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (CPT).