Chih-Jen Lin
Chih-Jen Lin | |
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林智仁 | |
| Born | 1971 (age 54–55) |
| 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 |
| Workplaces | National Taiwan University |
| Thesis | Studies in large-scale optimization |
| Website | www |
Chih-Jen Lin (Chinese: 林智仁; pinyin: Lín Zhìrén) is a Taiwanese computer scientist who is a 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. With his students he also developed LIBLINEAR, a widely used library for large-scale linear classification.