Yi-Li Lin is currently a distinguished professor in the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology in Taiwan. She received her B.S. in civil engineering and her Ph. D. in environmental engineering from the National Taiwan University. Yi-Li has been to the Stanford University as a visiting scholar in the department of civil and environmental engineering. Her research is focused on physical and chemical processes for water treatment and water recovery as well as developing torrefaction technology for renewable energy recovery from waste biomass. She has published over 130 high quality SCI papers with h-index of 37 and been selected as Top 2% scientists of the world (2020-2023, single year; 2023 career).

Development of green technology for sustainable water and energy resource, by integrating thin-film-composite (TFC) membrane fabrication and modification for forward osmosis (FO) and osmosis distillation (OD) membranes with water electrolysis for hydrogen production. The other research topic is waste biomass extraction for valuable platform chemicals and conversion to renewable energy using DES and torrefaction technology.