Yi-Lin Tsai is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS).  His mentor is Professor Yng-Ing Lee.

Before joining NCTS, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the McMaster University in Canada. He received his PhD degree from University of California, Irvine, under the supervision of Professor Xiangwen Zhang.

His research focuses on geometric partial differential equations, with broader interests in geometric analysis and differential geometry.