Lin Wang (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. in electronics engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2001. From 1984 to 1986, he was a Teaching Assistant with the Mathematics Department, Chongqing Normal University. From 1989 to 2002, he was a Teaching Assistant; a Lecturer; and then, an Associate Professor in applied mathematics and communication engineering with Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunication, Chongqing, China. From 1995 to 1996, he spent one year with the Mathematics Department, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. In 2003, he spent three months as a Visiting Researcher with the Center for Chaos and Complexity Networks, City University of Hong Kong. In 2013, he was a Senior Visiting Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of California at Davis, USA. He was a Distinguished Professor with Xiamen University, China, from 2012 to 2017, where he has been a Full Professor with the School of Informatics since 2003. He has authored more than 200 journal and conference papers (including 80 IEEE journal articles). He holds 21 patents in physical layers in digital communications. His current research interests include source coding/channel coding, joint source and channel coding/decoding, chaos modulation and their applications to wired/wireless communication, and underwater acoustic communications.