Welcome to Rong-En Fan's Homepage

This is Rong-En Fan. Currently, I work on Yahoo! Gemini (and Yahoo! Search in the past) out of Taipei office as a software engineer. I graduated from Machine Learning Group at National Taiwan University in 2007. E-Mail: grafan _AT_ gmail.

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, K.-W. Chang, C.-J. Hsieh, X.-R. Wang, and C.-J. Lin. LIBLINEAR: A library for large linear classification, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9(2008), 1871-1874.
• 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

• Software Engineer, Yahoo (formerly known as Verizon Media / Oath), Taipei, sep. 2021 – present
• Software Engineer, Verizon Media (formerly known as Oath), Taipei, Jan. 2019 – Sep. 2021
• Software Engineer, Oath (merger of AOL and Yahoo!), Taipei, June 2017 – Jan. 2019
• Software Engineer, Yahoo!, Taipei, Aug. 2007 – June 2017
• FreeBSD src committer, Jan. 31, 2007 – July 23, 2012
• FreeBSD ports committer, June 24, 2006 – Jan. 17, 2015
• Intern, Intelligent Vision & Reasoning, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, Jan. – July, 2006
• 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

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
• First Prize, 2nd Youth Networking Skill Competition (華佗盃網路技能解疑大賽), Cisco Academy Training Center, Aug. 2006
• 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 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 flickr (In Chinese)

Other Stuffs / Links

• Some Documents/Notes (Mostly in Chinese)
• Patches (On your own risk!)