Chih-Jen Lin

Chih-Jen Lin
Native name	林智仁
Residence	Taipei, Taiwan
Fields	machine learning data mining optimization
Institutions	National Taiwan University
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (BS 1993) University of Michigan (MS 1996; PhD 1998)
Thesis	Study in Large-Scale optimization
Known for	LIBSVM
Notable awards	ACM Fellow (2015) AAAI Fellow (2014) IEEE Fellow (2011)
Website www.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

• ACM Fellow (2015) ^[2]

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

• LIBSVM implements the SMO algorithm for kernelized support vector machines. LIBSVM Homepage

Articles

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

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

External links

• Chih-Jen Lin Google Scholar, h-index is 50.