Chih-Jen Lin

Chih-Jen Lin
林智仁
EducationNational Taiwan University (BS)
University of Michigan (MS, PhD)
Known forLIBSVM
AwardsACM Fellow (2015)
AAAI Fellow (2014)
IEEE Fellow (2011)
Scientific career
Fieldsmachine learning
data mining
optimization
InstitutionsNational Taiwan University
ThesisStudies in large-scale optimization
Websitewww.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/

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.