He is also the Project Leader of SPMF, an open-source data mining library, which is a toolkit offering multiple types of data mining algorithms. He has published more than 500 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. His research interests include data mining, soft computing, artificial intelligence, social computing, multimedia and image processing, and privacy-preserving and security technologies.,Prof. Lin also serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Data Science and Pattern Recognition and an Associate Editor for several top-tier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. He is the Fellow of IET and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.