Professor Ming-Jen Lin earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2002. His research interests span various fields, including data science and economics, demography and health, law and economics, and labor economics. He places particular emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration within the social sciences. Currently, he serves as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University and holds the position of Chairman of the Taiwan Economic Association. Additionally, he concurrently serves as the Deputy Executive Secretary at the National Science and Technology Office. Furthermore, he has previously held the role of Director at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences within the National Science and Technology Development Bureau (formerly the Ministry of Science and Technology), where he was responsible for promoting research and development in the fields of humanities and social sciences. He has also served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University. During his tenure as Director of the Center for Behavioral and Data Science and the Center for Population and Gender Studies at National Taiwan University, he actively promoted the development of interdisciplinary research. 