He served as a Visiting Professor at National Chao-tung University and Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, Founder & CEO of Nasdaq-listed companies, He holds over 40 patents and is the inventor (US patents, 1992, 2000) of flying-spot LASIK procedure currently used in eye hospitals worldwide. He has published over 55 book chapters and over 200 peer-review journal papers including about 80 SCI-impacted. His awards include WHO's WHO in Leading American Executives, Model of oversea Chinese Young Entrepreneur and Fellow of American Society of Laser Surgery & Medicine.

Prof. Lin research areas include: design of medical lasers (for dental, ophthalmic and anti-cancer uses), nanotechnology, bio-engineering, basic physics and modeling of vision-corrections and light-activated processes in medical and biological systems.