| Chih-Jen Lin | |
| Native Name: | 林智仁 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Fields: | machine learning data mining optimization |
| Workplaces: | National Taiwan University |
| Alma Mater: | National Taiwan University (BS 1993) University of Michigan (MS 1996; PhD 1998) |
| Thesis Title: | Studies in large-scale optimization |
| Thesis Url: | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/131260 |
| Thesis1 Year: | and |
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| Known For: | LIBSVM |
| Awards: | ACM Fellow (2015) AAAI Fellow (2014) IEEE Fellow (2011) |
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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.[1]
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.
For contributions to the theory and practice of machine learning and data mining.
For significant contributions to the field of machine learning, and the development of a widely used SVM software.
For contributions to support vector machine algorithms and software.