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Patrick Lin is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, based at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is the lead editor of Robot Ethics. More
Lin has published extensively in the field of technology ethics, especially the areas of military technologies, robotics, human enhancement, and nanotechnology. Currently, he is an associate professor in Cal Poly's philosophy department, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, and an adjunct senior research fellow at Australia's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE). He is also a member of University of Notre Dame’s Emerging Technologies of National Security and Intelligence (ETNSI) initiative, as well as the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security (CETMONS). Lin was previously an ethics fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy and a post-doctoral associate at Dartmouth College. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Greenwall Foundation.
