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Lin's prolific scholarship comprises over 200 original research articles published in leading journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. He has co-authored influential books including Geometric Measure Theory: An Introduction (2002, with Xiaoping Yang), The Analysis of Harmonic Maps and Their Heat Flows (2008, with Changyou Wang), and Elliptic Partial Differential Equations (2011, with Qing Han). Prominent publications include "Elliptic partial differential equations" (2011), "Nonparabolic dissipative systems modeling the flow of liquid crystals" (1995), "On hydrodynamics of viscoelastic fluids" (2005), and recent contributions such as "Matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation and the Keller-Rubinstein-Sternberg problem" (Invent. Math., 2023), "Isotropic-nematic phase transition and liquid crystal droplets" (Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 2023), and "Critical sets of solutions of elliptic equations in periodic homogenization" (Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 2024). His work has profoundly influenced the fields of partial differential equations and applied analysis, evidenced by over 19,000 citations. Among his honors are the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989), Outstanding Young Researcher Award from NSF-China (1998), Chang Jiang Chair Professorship (1999), American Mathematical Society Bocher Prize (2002), S.S. Chern Prize at ICCM (2004), fellowships of the AMS, SIAM, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and election to the National Academy of Sciences (2025).