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]

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/

Biography edit

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 edit

For contributions to the theory and practice of machine learning and data mining.
For significant contributions to the field of machine learning, and the development of a widely used SVM software.
For contributions to support vector machine algorithms and software.

Selected works edit

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Articles edit

  • 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. S2CID 961425.

References edit

  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. S2CID 961425.
  2. ^ CHIH-JEN LIN ACM Fellows 2015
  3. ^ AAAI Fellows Elected in 2014, Chih-Jen Lin, National Taiwan University

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