Nan Lin received a B.S. in geographic information systems from Jilin Jianzhu University, Changchun, China, in 2006. She received a DOC. in cartography and geographic information engineering from Jilin University in 2014. She has been a Vice President of the School of Geomatics and Prospecting Engineering, Jilin Jianzhu University, Changchun, China since November 2020.