 His parents , Lin Gie @-@ Ming and Shirley Lin , emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in the mid @-@ 1970s , settling first in Virginia before moving to Indiana , where they both attended universities . They are dual nationals of Taiwan and the U.S. Lin 's paternal family comes from <unk> , Changhua , Taiwan , while his maternal grandmother emigrated to Taiwan in the late 1940s from <unk> , Zhejiang , in mainland China . 
