Welcome to Rong-En Fan's Homepage

My name is Rong-En Fan. I graduated from Machine Learning Group at National Taiwan University this June. After that, I joined Yahoo! Taiwan office as a software engineer. E-Mail: rafan _AT_ infor.org (general purpose) or b90098 _AT_ csie.ntu.edu.tw (academic purpose). My PGP Key is here. Finger print is listed in the bottom of this page.

Research

• Machine Learning, interested in Support Vector Machines
• Hotter or Notter: an experimental site for ranking research. Work from other group members.

Publications

• R.-E. Fan and C.-J. Lin, A Study on Threshold Selection for Multi-label Classification, Technical Report, National Taiwan University, 2007.
• R.-E. Fan, P.-H. Chen, and C.-J. Lin, Working Set Selection Using the Second Order Information for Training SVM, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6(2005), 1889-1918.
• P.-H. Chen, R.-E. Fan, and C.-J. Lin, A Study on SMO-type Decomposition Methods for Support Vector Machines, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(2006), 893-908.

Education

• M.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Sep. 2005 – June 2007
• B.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Sep. 2001 – June 2005
• H.S., Jianguo Senior High School, Sep. 1998 – June 2001

Experience

• Programmer, Yahoo! Taiwan, Aug 2007 – present
• FreeBSD ports committer, June 24, 2006 – present
• Intern, Intelligent Vision & Reasoning, Siemens Corporate Research, Jan. 25 – July 24, 2006
• Secretary, IEEE National Taiwan University Student Branch, July 2004 – June 2005
• System Administrator / Lab Assistant, Workstation Lab, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Sep. 2001 – Jun. 2007
• Webmail Administrator, Computer and Information Networking Center, National Taiwan University, Aug. 2002 – June 2005
• System / Network Administrator, Network Center, Jianguo Senior High School, July 1999 – June 2000
• President, Information Club, Feb. 1999 – Jan. 2000

Honors / Awards

• Excellent Honor, Inter-University Information Security Contest (全國大專院校資安技能金盾獎競賽), Institute for Information Industry, Dec 2006
• Scholarship, Cyberlink Education Foundation, Dec. 2006
• First Prize, 2nd Youth Networking Skill Competition (華佗盃網路技能解疑大賽), Cisco Academy Training Center, Aug. 2006
• Student Service Education Award, National Taiwan University, June 2005
• Presidential Award, National Taiwan University, Fall 2004 / Spring 2004 / Spring 2003

Projects / Hacks

• FreeBSD ports committer, maintainer of several FreeBSD Ports
• impgraph, a mailgraph-like statistics for Horde/IMP login success/failure
• EasyIPConfig, my fork of vgod's EasyIPConfig, a tiny GUI program for Windows networking settings with profile support

Interests

• FreeBSD, a great Open Source OS that I use everyday since 1998.
• UNIX System Administration, I am highly interested in UNIX (to be precise, FreeBSD) system administration.
• Networking, especially in debugging and management of campus network. I found this is fascinating from my experience in Network Center of Jianguo Senior High School.

More About Me

• My blog (In Chinese)
• My FreeBSD blog
• My album (In Chinese)
• My flickr (In Chinese)
• My del.icio.us
• PGP Key (Key fingerprint = DC9E 5B4D 2DDA D5C7 B6F8 6E69 D78E 1091 86FD 8C68) [expires: 2009-06-03]

Other Stuffs / Links

• Some Documents/Notes (Mostly in Chinese)
• Patches (On your own risk!)
• My homepage at infor.org (out of date) (in Chinese)
• My homepage at ck.tp.edu.tw (out of date) (in Chinese)

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