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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 sequential minimal optimization 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). doi:10.1145/1961189.1961199. S2CID 961425.

References

External links

• Chih-Jen Lin Google Scholar, h-index is 63.