2018年，新加坡国立大学，博士学位
2013年，瑞典隆德大学，硕士学位
2011年，深圳大学/瑞典于默奥大学，双学士学位

2021年5月至今，南方科技大学，助理教授
2018年8月至2021年4月，新加坡国立大学，博士后研究员
2017年5月至2017年8月，意大利都灵理工大学，访问学者
2013年12月至2014年8月，新加坡国立大学，研究工程师

超低功耗数字集成电路设计
高能效人工智能处理器设计
多传感器融合芯片设计
集成电路硬件安全
超低温集成电路设计

ISSCC The Takuo Sugano Award for Outstanding Far-East Paper，2022
ISSCC Demonstration Session Certificate of Recognition，2022
ISSCC Demonstration Session Certificate of Recognition，2020
IEEE SSCS Singapore Chapter Award，2017 & 2018
ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award, 2017

Books
S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, Adaptive Digital Circuits for Power-Performance Range beyond Wide Voltage Scaling - From the Clock Path to the Data Path, Springer, 2020, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-38796-9, eBook ISBN 978-3-030-38796-9, Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-38795-2.

International Journals
1. H. Zhang, L. Lin#, Q. Fang, M. Alioto, “Laser Voltage Probing Attack Detection With 100% Area/Time Coverage at Above/Below the Bandgap Wavelength and Fully-Automated Design,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), early access.
2. J. Lan, Z. Li, Z. Chen, Q. Zhu, W. Wang, M. Zaheer, J. Lu, J. Liang, M. Shen, P. Chen, K. Chen, G. Zhang, Z. Wang, F. Zhou, L. Lin, Y. Li, “Improved Performance of HfxZnyO‐Based RRAM and its Switching Characteristics down to 4 K Temperature,” Adv. Electron. Mater. 2023, 9, 2201250.
3. Q. Duong, Q. Trinh, V. Nguyen, D. Dao, D. Luong, V. Hoang, L. Lin, J. Deepu, “A low-power charge-based integrate-and-fire circuit for binarized-spiking neural network,” Int J Circ Theor Appl. 2023; 51(7): 3404-3414.
4. L. Fassio, L. Lin, R. De Rose, M. Lanuzza, F. Crupi, M. Alioto, “Voltage reference with corner-aware replica selection/merging for 1.4-mV accuracy in harvested systems down to 3.9 pW, 0.2 V,” IEEE Access, vol.11, 3584-3596, 2023.
5. J. Basu, K. Ali, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “Picowatt-Power Analog Gain Stages in Super-Cutoff Region With Purely-Harvested Demonstration,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 5, 226-229, 2022.
6. W. Mao, K. Li, Q. Cheng, L. Dai, B. Li, X. Xie, H. Li, L. Lin, H. Yu, "A Configurable Floating-Point Multiple-Precision Processing Element for HPC and AI Converged Computing," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 213-226, Feb. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2021.3128435.
7. S. Jain, L. Lin# and M. Alioto, "±CIM SRAM for Signed In-Memory Broad-Purpose Computing From DSP to Neural Processing," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 2981-2992, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3092759. (#corresponding author)
8. L. Fassio, L. Lin, R. De Rose, M. Lanuzza, F. Crupi and M. Alioto, "A 0.6-to-1.8V CMOS Current Reference with Near-100% Power Utilization," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, early access, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2021.3085607.
9. L. Fassio*, L. Lin*, R. De Rose, M. Lanuzza, F. Crupi and M. Alioto, "Trimming-Less Voltage Reference for Highly Uncertain Harvesting Down to 0.25 V, 5.4 pW," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 3134-3144, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3081440. (*equally credited authors)
10. L. Lin, S. Jain, M. Alioto, “Sub-nW Microcontroller with Dual-mode Standard Cells and Self-startup for Battery-Indifferent Sensor Nodes”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 1618-1629, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3038115.
11. L. Fassio, F. Settino, L. Lin, et al., "A Robust, High-Speed and Energy-Efficient Ultralow-Voltage Level Shifter," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, early access, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2020.3033253.
12. S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, "Broad-Purpose In-Memory Computing for Signal Monitoring and Machine Learning Workloads," in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 3, pp. 394-397, 2020, doi: 10.1109/LSSC.2020.3024838.
13. S. Jain, L. Lin#, M. Alioto, “Drop-In Energy-Performance Range Extension in Microcontrollers Beyond VDD Scaling”, in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 2670-2679, Oct. 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3005778.

(#corresponding author)
1. L. Lin, S. Jain, M. Alioto, “Integrated Power Management for Battery-Indifferent Systems with Ultra-Wide Adaptation down to nW”, in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 967-976, April 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2959742.
2. S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “Automated Design of Reconfigurable Micro-Architectures for Accelerators under Wide Voltage Scaling”, in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 777-790, March 2020, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2950959.
3. L. Lin, S. Jain, M. Alioto, "Reconfigurable Clock Networks for Wide Voltage Scaling," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 2622-2631, Sept. 2019, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2925269.
4. O. Aiello, P. Crovetti, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “A pW-Power Hz-Range Oscillator Operating with a 0.3V-1.8V Unregulated Supply”, in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1487-1496, May 2019, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2886336.
5. S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “Dynamically Adaptable Pipeline for Energy-Efficient Microarchitectures under Wide Voltage Scaling,” in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 632-641, Feb. 2018, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2017.2768406.
6. S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “Design-Oriented Energy Models for Wide Voltage Scaling down to the Minimum Energy Point,” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 3115-3125, Dec. 2017, doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2017.2736540.

International Conferences
1. H. Zhang*, L. Lin*, Q. Fang, U. Kalingage, M. Alioto, “Self-Referenced Design-Agnostic Laser Voltage Probing Attack Detection with 100% Protection Coverage, 58% Area Overhead for Automated Design,” 2023 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits), Kyoto, Japan, 2023. (*equally credited authors)
2. Q. Fang, L. Lin*, H. Zhang, T. Wang, M. Alioto, “Voltage Scaling-Agnostic Counteraction of Side-Channel Neural Net Reverse Engineering via Machine Learning Compensation and Multi-Level Shuffling,” 2023 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits), Kyoto, Japan, 2023. (*equally credited authors)
3. J. Li, Y. Dong, L. Lin, J. S. Y. Tan, F. J. Yi, J. Yoo, “Wireless Body-Area Network Transceiver ICs with Concurrent Body-Coupled Powering and Communication using Single Electrode,” 2023 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits), Kyoto, Japan, 2023.
4. Y. Zheng, T. He, X. Liang, Z. Kong, L. Lin, J. Zhao, "Body-Channel Wireless Power Transfer Employing Transmitter-Side Received Power Monitoring and Maximum Point Tracking," 2022 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2022, pp. 495-499.
5. H. Wu, J.H. Park, M. Zhang, L. Lin, R. Jiang, J.H. Choi, J. Yoo, “A 0.95 pJ/b 5.12 Gb/s/pin Charge-Recycling IOs with 47% Energy Reduction for Big Data Applications,” 2022 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Taipei, Taiwan, 2022.
6. H. Zhang*, L. Lin*, Q. Fang, M. Alioto, "On-Chip Laser Voltage Probing Attack Detection with 100% Area Coverage at Above/Below the Bandgap Wavelength and Fully-Automated Design," 2022 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2022, pp. 140-141. (*equally credited authors)
7. K. A. Ahmed*, L. Lin*, P. S. Salamani, M. Alioto, "Imager with Dynamic LSB Adaptation and Ratiometric Readout for Low-Bit Depth 5-μW Peak Power in Purely-Harvested Systems," 2022 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2022, pp. 50-51. (*equally credited authors)
8. Q. Fang*, L. Lin*, Y. Z. Wong, H. Zhang, M. Alioto, “Side-Channel Attack Counteraction via Machine Learning-Targeted Power Compensation for Post-Silicon HW Security Patching”, 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) , Feb. 2022. (*equally credited authors)
9. L. Wu, J. Guo, R. Jiang, Y. Peng, H. Wu, J. Li, Y. Dong, M. Zhang, Z. Li, K. A. Ng, C.-W. Tsai, L. Zhang, L. Lin, L. Lin and J. Yoo, "BatDrone: A 9.83M-focal points/s, 7.76μs Latency Ultrasound Imaging Sensor SoC with On-Chip Per-Voxel RX Beam-Focusing for 7-m Range Drone Applications", 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) , Feb. 2022.
10. T. He, Z. Kong, X. Liang, J. Luo, L. Lin, L. Qi, Y. Li, J. Zhao, G. Wang, "A 10-Mbps 119.2-pJ/bit Software Defined Body Channel Transceiver Employing a CCII-based PGA and a 2.5-bit/cycle ADC in 180-nm CMOS," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies and Applications (ICTA), 2021, pp. 206-207, doi: 10.1109/ICTA53157.2021.9661912.
11. L. Fassio*, L. Lin*, R. De Rose, M. Lanuzza, F. Crupi and M. Alioto, "A 3.2-pW, 0.2-V Trimming-Less Voltage Reference with 1.4-mV Across-Wafer Total Accuracy," ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2021, pp. 343-346, doi: 10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567778. (*equally credited authors)
12. Y. Dong, J. Li, L. Lin, T. Tang, J. H. Park, K. A. Ng, M. Zhang, L. Zhang, J. S. Y. Tan, J. Yoo., "Body-Coupled Power Transceiver with Node-Specific Body-Area Powering," ESSCIRC 2021 - IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2021, pp. 423-426, doi: 10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567745.
13. L. Lin, K. A. Ahmed, P. S. Salamani and M. Alioto, "Battery-Less IoT Sensor Node with PLL-Less WiFi Backscattering Communications in a 2.5-μW Peak Power Envelope," 2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2021, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492358.
14. M. Zhang, L. Zhang, J. H. Park, C-W. Tsai, K. A. Ng, L. Lin, Y. Dong, J. Li, T. Tang, H. Wu, L. Wu, J. Yoo, "A One-Shot Learning, Online-Tuning, Closed-Loop Epilepsy Management SoC with 0.97μJ/Classification and 97.8% Vector-Based Sensitivity," 2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2021, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.23919/VLSICircuits52068.2021.9492429.
15. L. Lin, S. Jain, M. Alioto, “Multi-Sensor Platform with Five-Order-of-Magnitude System Power Adaptation down to 3.1nW and Sustained Operation under Moonlight Harvesting”, 2020 Symposium on VLSI Circuit, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2020, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/VLSICircuits18222.2020.9162898.
16. L. Fassio*, L. Lin*, R. Rose, M. Lanuzza, F. Crupi, M. Alioto, “A 0.25-V, 5.3-pW Voltage Reference with 25-µV/oC Temperature Coefficient, 140µV/V Line Sensitivity and 2,200-µm2 Area in 180nm”, 2020 Symposium on VLSI Circuit, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2020, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/VLSICircuits18222.2020.9162872. (*equally credited authors)
17. J. Li, Y. Dong, J. Park, L. Lin, T. Tang, M. Zhang, H. Wu, L. Zhang, J. S. Y. Tan, J. Yoo “Human-Body-Coupled Power-Delivery and Ambient-Energy-Harvesting ICs for a Full-Body-Area Power Sustainability”, 2020 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2020, pp. 514-516, doi: 10.1109/ISSCC19947.2020.9063042.
18. S. Jain, L. Lin, M. Alioto, “Drop-In Energy-Performance Range Extension in Microcontrollers Beyond VDD Scaling”, 2019 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Macau, China, 2019, pp. 125-128, doi: 10.1109/A-SSCC47793.2019.9056919.
19. L. Lin, S. Jain, M. Alioto, “Integrated Power Management and Microcontroller for Ultra-Wide Power Adaptation down to nW”, 2019 Symposium on VLSI Circuit, Kyoto, Japan, 2019, pp. C178-C179, doi: 10.23919/VLSIC.2019.8778085.
20. L. Lin, S. Jain, M. Alioto, “A 595pW 14pJ/cycle Microcontroller with Dual-mode Standard Cells and Self-startup for Battery-Indifferent Distributed Sensing”, 2018 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, 2018, pp. 44-46, doi: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310175.
21. L. Lin, K. Trinh Quang, M. Alioto, “Transistor Sizing Strategy for Simultaneous Energy-Delay Optimization in CMOS Buffers”, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Baltimore, MD, 2017, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ISCAS.2017.8050997.
22. L. Lin, S. Jain, M. Alioto, “Reconfigurable Clock Networks for Random Skew Mitigation from Sub-Threshold to Nominal Voltage”, 2017 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, 2017, pp. 440-441, doi: 10.1109/ISSCC.2017.7870450.

Patents
L. Lin, S. Jain, M. Alioto, “Multi-mode standard cell logic and self-startup for battery-indifferent or pure energy harvesting systems”, U.S. Patent 2020/0395940 A1, Dec. 17, 2020.