Her research projects in UW have involved nanophotonics with solution-processed materials, nanostructure-enhanced laser tweezers, bio-photonics and optical MEMS/NEMS. She has served on the technical program committee and as chair and co-chair of various technical conferences, and has served as guest editor for several journals in the field of photonics. She has over 90 journal publications, 180 conference papers, 5 book chapters and 34 US patents. Lin was a recipient of the MIT Technology Review Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the OSA.