Prof. Chih-Jen Lin

cjlin cjlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw (02) 2362-5336 ext. 41
C.S.I.E Buliding (Der Tian Hall) , room 413 Web Site
Ph.D. Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
Machine Learning, Scientific Computing, Operations Research

Current

  • Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, NTU
  • Professor, Graduate Institute of Industrial Engineering, NTU

Education Background

  • Visiting Scientist, Google Research, 2/2008-9/2008
  • Visiting Scientist, Yahoo! Research, 8/2006-2/2007
  • Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1998

Research interests

  • Machine learning
  • Data mining
  • Optimization

Research Areas

  • Machine Learning
  • Support vector machine (SVM), a popular classification method
  • Machine learning software design
  • Achievements
  • Developer of the most popular SVM software; tens of thousands of users worldwide
  • Many our papers are highly cited: thousands of citations at Google Scholar


Teaching
introductory course

  • Numerical methods
  • Introduction to theory of computation

practical course

  • Data mining and machine learning