Dr. Weijane Lin is a Professor at National Taiwan University’s Department of Library and Information Science and currently holds the NTU Excelsior Youth Chair Professorship (2026/08 - 2029/07) and the College of Liberal Arts Excelsior Chair Professorship (2024/08 - 2027/07). She also serves as Deputy Director of the Research Center for Digital Humanities and as a research fellow at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Robotics. Weijane joined the faculty as an assistant professor in February 2010. She has a research and teaching background in higher education and multimedia studies and is dedicated to exploring how media technology can support learning across disciplines. She holds a Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University, Japan, and has extensive research experience, with 100+ publications and research and educational projects, mainly funded by Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council. Dr. Lin is passionate about the accessibility and usability of media technologies and how they can improve people's learning experiences. She served as Division Director of e-Learning (2016-2024) at NTU Computer and Information Networking Center and is actively involved in several online learning initiatives related to learning management systems, both locally and globally. Since 2023, she has been on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Educational Technology (Top 4% in Education & Educational Research).

Weijane received her BS and MS degrees in Agricultural Extension from National Taiwan University. After studying the applications of educational technology in extension education, she realized the importance of instructional message and media design and was inspired to explore the research field further. She received her Ph.D. in Informatics from the Division of Multimedia Application with the Dept. of Intelligence Science & Technology, Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University in Japan, under the supervision of Dr. Michihiko Minoh. In her 4-year doctoral studies, Weijane designed and developed systematic supporting mechanisms, from instructional to information systems, to facilitate interactivity and interaction in international distance education. Her dissertation was selected by the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence for publication in the Journal of JSAI as a good work on human interfaces and computer-supported learning. Since her appointment at NTU, Weijane has concentrated on researching how media and information technology are used in informal learning within libraries and museums. Her interests lie at the intersection of LIS, multimedia studies, and educational technology. She primarily investigates how media technologies can be harnessed to improve learning experiences across different fields, making significant contributions to these areas. Her approach is pragmatic, grounded in the perspectives of library media specialists and rooted in the theory of resource-based learning.

Dr. Lin teaches courses related to multimedia studies, such as Human-Computer Interaction (LIS5066), Needs Inquiry (DS5102), User Behaviour Research (LIS8025), Information Communication Systems (LIS5069), Science Communication (LIS5105), Media Presentation and Preservation for Digital Archives (LIS5071), eBook & Digital Publishing (LIS5081), Museum Learning (LIS7018), and Museum Visitor Studies (LIS7024). She also actively participates in several interdisciplinary teaching activities, such as the Technology and Humanities (LIS3042) course offered by the College of Liberal Arts and workshops hosted by cultural institutions such as libraries and museums. Her commitment to education has been widely recognized, as evidenced by several teaching awards, including NTU Outstanding Teaching Awards and supervisor awards from both academic and industrial sectors. Dr. Lin's research and teaching interests center on performance support design using multimedia to enhance user experiences and human-computer interaction. In addition to teaching, she has received the NTU Academic Research Performance Grant multiple times and, since 2019, has been recognized as a merit-paid faculty member for her academic and interdisciplinary research performance.