Welcome to Rong-En Fan's Homepage

My name is Rong-En Fan. Currently, I work for Yahoo! Search at Taipei office as a software engineer. I graduated from Machine Learning Group at National Taiwan University in 2007.

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.

Software Engineer, Yahoo!, Taipei, Aug. 2007 – present
FreeBSD ports committer, June 24, 2006 – present
Intern, Intelligent Vision & Reasoning, Siemens Corporate Research, Jan. – July, 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

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

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.