Graduate Student @ Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Rural Development · Digital Agriculture · Carbon Forestry

Hey there! I'm Joke Lin, a grad student based in Fuzhou, China, studying at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. My research sits at the crossroads of rural development, digital agriculture, and forest carbon sinks — basically, I'm trying to figure out how technology can actually make a difference in China's countryside, not just in Silicon Valley pitch decks.

I started out with a social science background, but somewhere along the way I picked up coding, fell down the rabbit hole of web development, and now I split my time between writing academic papers and building things on the internet. My brain operates in two modes: "严肃学术人" (reading papers, running regressions in Stata, citing sources) and "全栈折腾鬼" (building personal portals at 2am, self-hosting services on a Raspberry Pi, arguing about CSS with myself).

I believe the best research happens when you can both analyze data and build the tools to present it. That's why my GitHub looks like it belongs to two different people — one who studies farmer participation in carbon sink programs, and one who makes Android novel reader apps with AI text-to-speech.

Rural Revitalization · Digital Agriculture · Rural Collective Economy · Forest Carbon Sink

I explore how technology empowers rural China — from empirical studies on farmer participation in carbon sink programs, to industry planning for rural towns, to reflecting on how AI reshapes academic workflows. My work sits at the intersection of social science and tech-enabled methodology.

What does that actually mean? A few concrete things:

• Carbon Forestry — I study what drives rural households to participate in forest carbon sink programs. Spoiler: it's not just about money. Trust, information access, and institutional support all play a role.
• Digital Agriculture — How do emerging technologies (IoT, remote sensing, AI) change the way farming communities organize, produce, and make decisions? I look at this from both the supply side (what tech exists) and the demand side (what farmers actually want).
• Rural Collective Economy — The revival of collective economic organizations in rural China is a fascinating institutional experiment. I'm interested in how these organizations adopt digital tools and what happens when they do.
• Industry Planning — I've participated in town-level industry planning projects, which means I get to see firsthand how policy meets reality at the village level. It's messy, complicated, and deeply human.

My methodology toolkit spans quantitative survey analysis (SPSS, Stata, Python), qualitative fieldwork, and increasingly, computational approaches to social science questions.

🌐 Personal Portal jokeslin.github.io This is my digital home base — a full-stack static portal that started as a weekend project and somehow grew into a 6-module platform. It includes a bookmark navigation system (100+ curated URLs across 12 categories, because I got tired of losing bookmarks), a blog engine, a digital resume, an AI music player, an AI novel reader, and a mini AI software store. Zero external dependencies. Pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Dark glassmorphism design because I'm a sucker for that frosted glass aesthetic. The whole thing runs on GitHub Pages and loads in under a second. HTML CSS JavaScript

📖 ZhiYuan Reader Android Novel Reader v1.0.0 A passion project born from my love of reading web novels. At 17.5MB, it's a lightweight Android app that packs AI-powered book recommendations and AI text-to-speech so you can listen to novels on your commute. The recommendation engine learns from your reading patterns, and the TTS feature supports multiple voices. I built this because every existing novel reader app either had too many ads, too many features I didn't need, or both. Sometimes the best reason to build something is that nothing out there does exactly what you want. Android AI/ML TTS

🎵 AI Music: 《远离林致远》 AI-assisted original composition An experiment in human-AI creative collaboration. I wrote the lyrics and melody framework, then used AI composition tools to flesh out the arrangement, harmonies, and production. The result is something that sounds like it could only come from a human heart, but was shaped by machine intelligence. This project taught me that AI isn't replacing creativity — it's amplifying it. The best creative work happens when you use AI as a collaborator, not a crutch. AI Music Creative AI

📝 AI Novel: 《斗破农大》 AI-driven Parody Fiction What happens when you feed classic web novel tropes into an AI and set it loose on a fictional agricultural university? You get 《斗破农大》 — a campus parody with 19+ character profiles, detailed relationship networks, and plot twists that even I didn't see coming. I designed the character system, world-building framework, and story arcs, while AI handled the heavy lifting of dialogue generation and scene descriptions. Think of it as a creative director working with an infinitely patient writing partner. AI Writing World-building

When I'm not buried in papers or code, you'll find me:

• 🎮 Gaming — I'm a 3A open-world junkie. The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding — I play for the world-building and atmosphere, not the speedruns. My GPU runs ray tracing at 1440p and my wallet weeps quietly in the corner. I believe a good game is interactive literature with better graphics.

• 🎬 Content Creation — I experiment with AI-assisted music composition and AI-powered fiction writing. It started as a curiosity ("can AI actually write a good novel?") and turned into a full-blown creative practice. The answer to that question, by the way, is "yes, but only if you guide it well."

• 🤖 AI Explorer — I'm a multi-model power user who switches between Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and whatever else is new this week. Each model has its strengths, and I enjoy pushing them to their limits. My browser has more AI tabs open than a tech conference.

• 🍜 Fuzhou Foodie — Fuzhou's food scene is criminally underrated. I'm on a personal mission to document every hidden gem in this city, one bowl of 鱼丸 (fish ball soup) at a time. If you ever visit Fuzhou, I have opinions. Strong ones.