Chih-Jen Lin

Chih-Jen Lin () 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.

Biography

Chih-Jen Lin received his B.S. (1993) in mathematics at National Taiwan University, and M.S.E. (1996) and Ph.D. (1998) in computer science at the University of Michigan.

Awards and honors

• ACM Fellow (2015)

For contributions to the theory and practice of machine learning and data mining.

• AAAI Fellow (2014)

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

References

External links

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