Cindy Kaiying Lin

Cindy Kaiying Lin is an ethnographer and information scientist serving as the Stephen Fleming Early Career Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her career spans roles as an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University's College of Information Sciences and Technology, and postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative and Cornell Atkinson Centre for Sustainability.

• PhD from University of Michigan's School of Information
• Co-author of Technoprecarious (MIT Press, 2020) and Digital Energetics (Minnesota Press, 2023)
• Published in ACM CHI, Social Text, e-flux, and other venues

Her research integrates Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and Critical Data Studies to analyze climate data practices and environmental governance in Indonesia and the United States. She explores how data infrastructures mediate ecological crises, sociotechnical errors, and post-growth economies.

Recent publications reveal trends in environmental data ethics, techno-optimism critique, and sustainable computing. Lin examines energy systems, digital precarity, and repair practices through interdisciplinary lenses spanning computational and humanistic disciplines.

Scientific awards include the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan. Her work bridges computing with critical theory, evidenced by publications in both ACM venues and humanistic presses.