Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica

Shane Hsuan-Yu Lin is an Assistant Research Fellow on the tenure track at IPSAS and a nonresident associate at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His research investigates the impact of social media on international security, with a focus on the role of this emerging media in escalating global conflicts and the interaction between elites and the public in foreign policy. His work has received support from the Fairbank Center, the Democratic Statecraft Lab at the University of Virginia, and the Fulbright Foundation. Previously, he held positions as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at IPSAS and a Pre-doctoral Research Fellow at the Fairbank Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Virginia.