Tao Lin
Postdoctoral Researcher
About
Tao Lin is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research (2025–2026), with the Economics and Computation group. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University (2025), and B.Sc. from Peking University (2020).
Tao’s research spans economics, machine learning, and theoretical computer science, focusing on mechanism design and information design for learning-based decision-makers, with applications to, e.g., advertising auctions and recommender systems. He is a recipient of the 2025 Siebel Scholar Award.
Tao will be an assistant professor in the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, starting from 2026.