(Taken on May. 10, 2004, Princeton, New Jersey)

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My Name is Wei-Chun Kao and 高偉鈞 in Chinese. I am in military service now and will retire on Dec. 19, 2005.

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My PGP Key is here , and fingerprint is 2EAD DBCD D311 1E09 5C9A 97B7 FC52 DACA 35B9 D642

B. S, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Oct 2000--Jun 2004
Chien-Kuo Senior High School, Oct 1997--Jun 2000 (Chinese Link)
Chung-Ho Junior High School, Oct 1994--Jun 1997 (Chinese Link)
Fu-Shing Elementary School, Oct 1988--Jun 1994 (Chinese Link)

W.-C. Kao, K.-M. Chung, C.-L. Sun, and C.-J. Lin. ``Decomposition Methods for Linear Support Vector Machines.'' In Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2003, and Neural Computation, 16:1689-1704, 2004.
K.-M. Chung, W.-C. Kao, C.-L. Sun, L.-L. Wang, and C.-J. Lin. ``Radius Margin Bounds for Support Vector Machines with the RBF Kernel.'' In Proc. of International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2002, and Neural Computation, 15: 2654-2681, 2003.
W.-C. Kao, and H.-I. Lu. ``Succinct Data Structures via Graph Decomposition.'' Submitted to Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS) 2006.

Lan-Yang Division, R.O.C. Army, Jul 2004--Dec 2005
- Second Lieutenant, Personnel Officer
- Retired honorable with R.O.C. Army Award
Siemens Corporate Research, New Jersey, USA, Feb 2004--Jul 2004
- Internship in Dept. of Intelligent Vision and Reasoning
- Supervisor: Dr. Claus Neubauer
- The project focused on power plant malfunction sensor detection.
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep 2002--Feb 2004
- Research Assistent in Dept. Computer Science and Information Engineering
- Advisor: Professor Chih-Jen Lin
- The major research topics included efficient model selection, optimization technique for solving linear-SVM and real world machine learning problems.
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Jul 2003--Sep 2003
- Research Assistent in Institude of Information Science
- Advisor: Professor Hsueh-I Lu (old page)
National College Entrance Examination Center
- Implemented National Joint College Entrance Examination Student Placement System
- Assigning 130000+ students to 2000+ programs according to program requirement, student's preference and grades
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 1997--Jun 1999
- Biological Programs for Selected Senior High School Students
- Extensive training including theory and experiment for 3 years

A Simple Compiler(Compiler Term Project), 2004
Digital Circuit Design Software(Logic Circuit Term Project), 2003
A Single Clock Cycle RISC CPU Implementation(Logic Circuit Experiment Term Project)
Asymptotic Convergence of the SMO Algorithm(Statistical Learning Thoery Term Project)