Yen-Chang Lin
Assistant Research Staff Scientist
| Email: | linyc[at]pub.iams.sinica.edu.tw |
| Office: | R125 |
| Tel: | +886-2-23624900 |
Research Interest
- Laboratory automation
- Administration system
Research Overview
Dr. Yen-Chang Lin is a specialist in software and system development, with expertise spanning FPGA design, Python and LabVIEW programming, graphical user interface development, and instrument control and signal integration. His work focuses on enhancing the stability, precision, and reliability of experimental equipment, bridging the gap between complex hardware systems and practical research needs. Actively engaged in instrument integration and laboratory automation, Dr. Lin has contributed to numerous research projects by helping build robust, high-efficiency experimental platforms. He provides support for remote monitoring, data logging, and automated alert systems, enabling real- time supervision and timely responses during long-duration experiments—capabilities that are increasingly essential in modern, data-intensive research environments. In parallel with experimental system development, Dr. Lin has supported laboratories in establishing protein structure prediction platforms based on a range of modern computational approaches, including AlphaFold and related methods, to facilitate structural modeling and design in biomedical research. His contributions include deep learning model deployment, automated analysis pipeline development, and high-performance computing resource management, helping laboratories accelerate scientific discovery and streamline structure validation workflows. Looking ahead, he plans to develop personal- and laboratory-scale Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that integrate local knowledge bases with language model inference, strengthening knowledge management and experimental decision-making. He also envisions the gradual introduction of automated data analysis, trend detection, and anomaly alert mechanisms, empowering researchers to monitor experimental conditions in real time while improving efficiency, traceability, and operational safety across the research process.
Education
- B.S., 2001, Department of Physics, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- M.S., 2004, Department of Physics, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
- Ph. D, 2015, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Engineering, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Professional History
- 2021 - present, Assistant Research Specialist, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2016 - 2021, Information Engineer, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2015 - 2016, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Selected Publications
- Probing Collins Conjecture with correlation energies and entanglement entropies for the ground and excited states in the helium iso-electronic sequence, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 124, e27420(2024)
- Spectral/structural data of helium atoms with exponential-cosine-screened coulomb potentials, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 115, 830(2015).
- Quantum entanglement for helium atom in the Debye plasmas, Physics of Plasmas 22, 032113(2015).
- Quantum entanglement for two electrons in the excited states of helium-like systems, Can. J. Phys. 93, 646(2015)
- Quantum Entanglement of helium-like atomic systems, Phys. Rev. A 87, 022316(2013).
- Spectral data of helium atoms with screened Coulomb potentials using the B-spline approach, Phys. Rev. A 85, 042516(2012).