Affiliated Professor, Department of Machine Learning, MBZUAI
Dr Chih-Jen Lin is an Affiliated Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Biography
Dr Lin is currently a distinguished professor at the Department of Computer Science, National Taiwan University. He has obtained his bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 1993 and Ph.D. degree from University of Michigan, USA in 1998.
His major research areas include machine learning, data mining, and numerical optimization. He is best known for his work on support vector machines (SVM) for data classification. He and his team developed widely used machine learning packages including LIBSVM (a library for support vector machines) and LIBLINEAR (a library for large linear classification).
Dr Lin has received many awards for his research work, including best paper awards in some top computer science conferences. He is a fellow of the Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his contribution to machine learning algorithms and software design.
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About Chih-Jen Lin
Dr Chih-Jen Lin is an Affiliated Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Biography
Dr Lin is currently a distinguished professor at the Department of Computer Science, National Taiwan University. He has obtained his bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 1993 and Ph.D. degree from University of Michigan, USA in 1998.
His major research areas include machine learning, data mining, and numerical optimization. He is best known for his work on support vector machines (SVM) for data classification. He and his team developed widely used machine learning packages including LIBSVM (a library for support vector machines) and LIBLINEAR (a library for large linear classification).
Dr Lin has received many awards for his research work, including best paper awards in some top computer science conferences. He is a fellow of the Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his contribution to machine learning algorithms and software design.
| Present | Affiliated Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence ‐ Department of Machine Learning | |
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Research Interests
Honors and Awards
- Best paper award, ACML (Asian Conference on Machine Learning) 2018 (with two students)
- Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015
- Fellow, Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014
- Best paper award, ACM Recommender Systems 2013 (with three students)
- Distinguished Scientist, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2011
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011
- Best paper award, ACM KDD 2010 (with three students)
