Mei Tsu-lin (Chinese: 梅祖麟; 14 February 1933 – 14 October 2023) was a Chinese-American linguist.
Mei was born in Beijing on 14 February 1933, and immigrated to the United States in 1949, during the Chinese Civil War.
He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oberlin College in 1954, and completed a master's degree in the same subject at Harvard University two years later, then obtained a doctorate in philosophy from Yale University in 1962.
Mei taught at Yale and held an assistant and associate professorship at Harvard before joining the Cornell University faculty in 1972.
[1][2] Mei was elected to Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 1994 and served as president of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics that same year,[2][3] succeeding Ting Pang-hsin.