Rate My Professor Daniel Lin

Daniel Lin, professionally known as Yen-Ting Lin, serves as Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics and Associate Dean for Faculty and Operations in the Knauss School of Business at the University of San Diego. He chairs the Department of Operations, Supply Chain Management, and Information Technology Management. Lin earned his Ph.D. in Operations, Technology, and Innovation Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011, M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2005, and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2002. He joined the University of San Diego as an Assistant Professor in 2011, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017, and to full Professor in 2022. Throughout his tenure, he has held key administrative roles, including department chair since 2020.

Lin specializes in operations management, supply chain strategies, sustainable product design, blockchain in supply chains, e-waste recycling, and business analytics. His publications appear in premier journals including Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Naval Research Logistics. Select works include "Vertical Integration under Competition: Forward, Backward, or No Integration?" (Production and Operations Management, 2014), "Are Strategic Customers always Bad for a Supply Chain?" (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2018), "Designing Sustainable Products under Co-Production Technology" (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020), and "Choice of E-Waste Recycling Standard under Recovery Channel Competition" (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020). Among his honors are the Steber Professorship (2020), Outstanding Review Service Award from Production and Operations Management (2015), and School of Business Junior Faculty Research Awards (2012, 2013). Lin serves on the editorial review boards of Decision Sciences Journal and Production and Operations Management, and has contributed extensively to university governance through roles on search committees, curriculum task forces, and strategic planning groups.