Ting-Syuan Lin is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Economics from National Taipei University and an M.A. in Sociology from National Taiwan University. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a research assistant at Academia Sinica, conducting surveys and managing data for the Taiwan Youth Project, a longitudinal study on Taiwanese youth. In 2023–2024, she was awarded a prestigious overseas study scholarship by Taiwan's Ministry of Education.

Her research explores how social structures, cultural norms, and demographic trends shape intimate life events and attitudes, such as marriage and childbearing, across diverse contexts. With a focus on marriage and family dynamics, fertility preferences, and the life course perspective, her work primarily examines East Asia and the United States, with collaborative projects in Europe. Using advanced quantitative methods, including sequence analysis, she investigates cross-national marriage patterns, precarious work during the transition to adulthood, and attitudes toward intergroup relationships and son preference. Additionally, she contributes to interdisciplinary projects employing computational methods to study residential segregation and disaster response, emphasizing spatial and social inequalities.