mich lin
phd student at MIT
design for austere environments
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presented the methodology and validation results of prioprioceptive sensing across gravity environments at IEEE EMBC 2025
discussed space architecture at the INCOSE Complex Adaptive Systems conference
MIT Morningside Academy for Design wrote about our expedition fieldwork!
I’m a researcher and PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA). I’m currently exploring architectural designs to support behavioral health in isolated, confined, extreme, and resource-confined environments, with a particular focus on long-duration space exploration.
Through a multi-disciplinary approach blending bioastronautical engineering, data science, architecture, design research, and health science, my portfolio explores the relationships between the human and the environment at various scales. I also have research interests in informing trends and thresholds in subclinical changes of wellbeing, developing technology for the unobtrusive sensing of psycho/physiological states, and learning from small datasets with mixed methods. I believe these combinations of techniques have valuable applications toward complex spaceflight and terrestrial challenges, allowing us to iterate quickly and engage deeply with human perception and experiences.
Raised in the coastal harbor of Keelung, Taiwan, I have a special affinity to the ocean and enjoy SCUBA and freediving, as well as swimming and surfing.
B.S. in Applied Mathematics
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder
M.S. in unobtrusive wearable sensing for kinematic assessment from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
shuyulin [at] mit [dot] edu
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(2024) Richard Dupont Memeorial Fellowship
(2024) MIT International Science & Technology Initiative Grant
(2024) MIT Arts Scholar
(2022) NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity
(2022) AIAA Neil Armstrong Award
(2021) National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
(2021) CU Boulder College of Engineering Graduate Award in Research
(2021) CU Boulder College of Engineering Graduate Award in Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
(2020) Matthew Isakowitz Fellow
(2020) Aviation Week / AIAA 20 Twenties
(2019) Brooke Owens Fellow
(2019) Women in Aerospace Foundation Scholar