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Chih-Jen Lin
Chih-Jen Lin
林智仁
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (BS 1993) ; University of Michigan (MS 1996; PhD 1998)
Known for	LIBSVM
Awards	ACM Fellow (2015) ; AAAI Fellow (2014) ; IEEE Fellow (2011)
	Scientific career
Fields	machine learning ; data mining ; optimization
Institutions	National Taiwan University
Thesis	Studies in large-scale optimization
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 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.