Chih-Jen Lin

Chih-Jen Lin is a Taiwanese computer scientist who is a 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. With his students he also developed LIBLINEAR, a widely used library for large-scale linear classification.

Biography Chih-Jen Lin earned a B.S. (1993) in mathematics at National Taiwan University, and an M.S.E. (1996) and a Ph.D. (1998) in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Lin's machine-learning software has been adopted by industry, with his libraries used by Yahoo, Google, eBay, and Microsoft. He has held visiting research positions, as a visiting scientist at Yahoo! Research (2006–2007) and visiting professor at Google Research (2008),

Awards and honors ACM Fellow (2015), for contributions to the theory and practice of machine learning and data mining TECO Award (2015) in Electrical Engineering, Information and Communication Technology Best Paper Award (2013), ACM Conference on Recommender Systems IEEE Fellow (2011), for contributions to support vector machine algorithms and software Best Paper Award (2010), ACM SIGKDD Conference

Selected works Software LIBSVM implements the sequential minimal optimization algorithm for kernelized support vector machines. LIBSVM Homepage LIBLINEAR, a library for large-scale linear classification. LIBLINEAR Homepage

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