Chih-Jen Lin

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]

Chih-Jen Lin
林智仁
Education	National Taiwan University (BS) University of Michigan (MS, PhD)
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/

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lin.

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)^[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.