Chih-Jen Lin () is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...

, and a leading researcher in

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...

, and data mining. He is best known for the open source library

LIBSVM LIBSVM and LIBLINEAR are two popular open source machine learning libraries, both developed at the National Taiwan University and both written in C++ though with a C API. LIBSVM implements the Sequential minimal optimization (SMO) algorithm for ...

, an implementation of

support vector machine In machine learning, support vector machines (SVMs, also support vector networks) are supervised learning models with associated learning algorithms that analyze data for classification and regression analysis. Developed at AT&T Bell Laboratorie ...

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) CHIH-JEN LIN ACM Fellows 2015
/ref> : ''For contributions to the theory and practice of machine learning and data mining.'' *

AAAI The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of artif ...

Fellow (2014) AAAI Fellows Elected in 2014, Chih-Jen Lin, National Taiwan University
/ref> : ''For significant contributions to the field of machine learning, and the development of a widely used SVM software.'' *

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

Fellow (2011) : ''For contributions to support vector machine algorithms and software.''

Selected works

Software

implements the SMO algorithm for kernelized support vector machines
LIBSVM Homepage

Articles

References

External links

Chih-Jen Lin Google Scholar

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is 63. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Chih-Jen Academic staff of the National Taiwan University Computer scientists University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni Living people Scientists from Taipei National Taiwan University alumni Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow Members of the IEEE Machine learning researchers Year of birth missing (living people)