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.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)
 * 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.

Software

 * LIBSVM implements the sequential minimal optimization algorithm for kernelized support vector machines. LIBSVM Homepage