Biography:Chih-Jen Lin

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Chih-Jen Lin
林智仁
Alma materNational Taiwan University (BS 1993)
University of Michigan (MS 1996; PhD 1998)
Known forLIBSVM
AwardsACM Fellow (2015)
AAAI Fellow (2014)
IEEE Fellow (2011)
Scientific career
Fieldsmachine learning
data mining
optimization
InstitutionsNational Taiwan University
ThesisStudies in large-scale optimization
Websitewww.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/

Chih-Jen Lin (Chinese: 林智仁; pinyin: Lín Zhìrén) is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at National Taiwan University, and a leading researcher in machine learning, optimization, and data mining. He is best known for the open-source library LIBSVM, an implementation of support vector machines.[1]

Biography

Chih-Jen Lin received his B.Sc. (1993) in Mathematics at National Taiwan University, and M.SE (1996) and Ph.D. (1998) in Operations at University of Michigan.

Awards and honors

For contributions to the theory and practice of machine learning and data mining.
  • AAAI Fellow (2014)[3]
For significant contributions to the field of machine learning, and the development of a widely used SVM software.
  • IEEE Fellow (2011)
For contributions to support vector machine algorithms and software.

Selected works

Software

Articles

  • Chang, Chih-Chung; Lin, Chih-Jen (2011). "LIBSVM: A library for support vector machines". ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2 (3). doi:10.1145/1961189.1961199. 

References

  1. Chang, Chih-Chung; Lin, Chih-Jen (2011). "LIBSVM: A library for support vector machines". ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2 (3). doi:10.1145/1961189.1961199. 
  2. CHIH-JEN LIN ACM Fellows 2015
  3. AAAI Fellows Elected in 2014, Chih-Jen Lin, National Taiwan University

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