Dr. Ping-I Lin is an adjunct associate professor at UNSW and an associate professor at Saint Louis University. He is a trained psychiatrist with a PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University, and he received postdoctoral research training at Duke University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the USA. With his cross-disciplinary expertise in statistics and psychiatry, he has conducted epidemiological research focusing on both intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing mental health.