Weison Lin obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Computer Science and Engineering Department, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, in 2015 and 2017. He worked as a teaching assistant at National Taiwan Ocean University, taught FPGA, VLSI design, and development subjects to undergraduate-level students, and supervised many final-year projects.

He acquired a Ph.D. degree from the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He was doing a Ph.D. project on edge AI accelerator architecture design related to reconfiguration and targeting harsh environments. He is also interested in topics such as smart wearable devices, low-power circuits, and FPGA systems.