Meng-Lai Yin is Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.   She received her Ph.D. and MS degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 1995 and 1989, respectively.  She also holds a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan.

She has many years of industrial experience in system engineering and system analyses (including reliability, performance, performability, and safety). Her research interests include performance and reliability analysis, embedded systems and parallel processing.