Chih-Jen Lin

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.