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(Taken on Mar. 12, 2009, Room 314, NTU CSIE)

Short Bio

Prof. Hsuan-Tien Lin received a B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2001, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from California Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University as an assistant professor in 2008, and has been an associate professor since August 2012.

Prof. Lin won the outstanding teaching award from the university in 2011. He co-authored the introductory machine learning textbook Learning from Data. His research interests include theoretical foundations of machine learning, studies on new learning problems, and improvements on learning algorithms. He received the 2012 K.-T. Li Young Researcher Award from the ACM Taipei Chapter, and co-led the teams that won the third place of KDDCup 2009 slow track, the champion of KDDCup 2010, the double-champion of the two tracks in KDDCup 2011, and the champion of track 2 in KDDCup 2012. He is currently serving as the Secretary General of Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Experience (complete curriculum vitae)

• Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, August 2012--present (Assistant Professor, August 2008--July 2012)
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University, August 2012--present
• Secretary General, Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence, February 2013--present

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science Option, California Institute of Technology, July 2003--June 2008
• M. S., Computer Science Option, California Institute of Technology, July 2003--June 2005
• B. S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, September 1997--June 2001

Contact

• electronic mailing address:
• regular mailing address: Room 314, CSIE Building, #1 Roosevelt Rd. Sec. 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan
• office phone: +886-2-3366-4888 ext. 314
• shared fax: +886-2-3366-4898 (please use a cover sheet)

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