Wang Lin is a researcher at the Institute of Visual Studies, China Academy of Art, and holds a PhD in Fine Arts. He supervises graduate research on Chinese Painting History and Chinese Buddhist Art and serves as a postdoctoral co-supervisor. He has long been engaged in the study of classical Chinese academia, conducting in-depth research on the history of Chinese thought, Chinese literary theory, and Chinese painting theory. Over the past decade, he has conducted research on Chinese and Indian Buddhist history and Buddhist. He has published dozens of papers in various academic journals, his publications include General Introduction to Pre-Qin Studies, Compilation and Verification of Painting Studies, Chronology of Yun Nantian, Divinity and Worldly Appearance: A Study of Early Chinese Arhat Beliefs and Images, and Reading Records of Juetang.

In 2020, Wang Lin organized the ICAST lecture series “Records of the Grand Historian”.