Wen-Dar Lin studied at the National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), from 1993 to 1998, where he received double degree from Dept. Applied Mathematics (AM) and Dept. Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE). In NCTU, he also received a M.S. degree CSIE in 2000 and a Ph.D. degree in AM in 2003. He then joined the Institute of Information Science (IIS), Academia Sinica as a postdoctoral fellow. In IIS, he is a member of the Bioinformatics group in the Computer Systems and Communication Lab. He is now a bioinformatics specialist of the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology (IPMB). His research interests include discrete mathematics, algorithms, group testing and bioinformatics.