Ying-Fan Lin

Name
Ying-Fan Lin

Position
Assistant Professor

Contact
Office Number：506-3 Civil Engineering Building
Tel：03-2654223
E-mail： yflin1110@cycu.edu.tw
Laboratory Website
ORCID: 0000-0002-4853-3944

Educational Background
Ph.D., Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
M.S., Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
B.S., Department of Environment Engineering, National Cheng Kung University

Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2021.11-2024.01
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 2018.11-2021.10

Honors and Awards

• 2024 Outstanding Reviewer, Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union
• 2023 Paper Award, Taiwan Agricultural Engineers Society
• 2020 Academic Research Award for Postdoctoral Researchers, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
• 2014 Sinotech Engineering Consultants Foundation Scholarship

Professional Certification

• Class A Wastewater Treatment Specialist Certification, Taiwan

Research Profile

Dr. Ying-Fan Lin’s research focuses on groundwater hydraulics and aquifer testing. He develops analytical and semi-analytical models to investigate non-instantaneous responses and hydraulic memory in groundwater systems, as well as uncertainty in parameter estimation and engineering decision-making arising from model selection. His work also extends to coupled groundwater and heat transport, thermal response testing, and shallow geothermal energy systems.

Research Areas

• Analytical and semi-analytical groundwater hydraulics and aquifer testing
• Lagging theory and hydraulic memory in groundwater systems
• Aquifer parameter estimation, model selection, and uncertainty quantification
• Coupled groundwater–heat transport and shallow geothermal systems

Research Highlight
According to the Scopus/SciVal Topic Overview, Ying-Fan Lin is ranked No. 2 among authors by publication output in the topic “Groundwater Resource Management” (Topic T.9485; accessed August 2026).

Future Research Directions

• Identification of non-instantaneous groundwater responses and multiple timescales
• Parameter estimation and decision uncertainty in aquifer and thermal response tests
• Design of shallow geothermal and subsurface thermal energy storage systems under groundwater-flow conditions
• Integration of physics-based and data-driven methods for groundwater systems