Yingzi Lin

COE Distinguished Professor and Chair, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Khoury College Affiliate Appointment

  • Human factors and applications
  • Smart sensors and intelligent systems
  • Human factors in healthcare and patient safety
  • Driver vehicle systems and transportation safety
  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Yingzi Lin is a professor of mechanical and industrial Engineering, and director of the Intelligent Human-Machine Systems (IHMS) Laboratory at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Her areas of expertise includes: intelligent human-machine systems, human factors and applications in healthcare and transportation safety, smart structures and systems, sensors and sensing systems, multimodality information fusion, driver-vehicle systems, patient safety, human machine interface design, human-robot interaction, robotics, and human friendly mechatronics.

Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and major industries such as GM and BOSE. She is a recipient of a few prestigious research awards, including NSF CAREER award and NSERC UFA (University Faculty Award). She has published over two hundred technical papers in referred journals, conference proceedings and book chapters.