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.
[1] Chih-Jen Lin received his B.S.
(1993) in mathematics at National Taiwan University, and M.S.E.
(1996) and Ph.D. (1998) in computer science at the University of Michigan.