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Yew Jin Lim, a Singaporean computer scientist, currently software engineer at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, USA. He received a B.Math in pure mathematics and computer science at the University of Waterloo in June 2000, and a Ph.D. in computer science on the topic of Forward Pruning in Game-Tree Search at the National University of Singapore in 2007, covering RankCut. His research interests include game AI, interactive media, high performance computing and machine learning.

=Tigers and Goats= Along with Jürg Nievergelt, Yew Jin Lim solved the ancient Nepali board game Bagh-Chal, also known as Tigers and Goats by retrograde analysis and various optimzation techniques.

=Selected Publications=

2000 ...

 * Wee-Chong Oon, Yew Jin Lim (2003). An Investigation on Piece Differential Information in Co-Evolution on Games Using Kalah. CEC2003, Vol. 3, pdf
 * Yew Jin Lim, Jürg Nievergelt (2004). Computing Tigers and Goats. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3, pdf

2005 ...

 * Yew Jin Lim, Wee Sun Lee (2006). Properties of Forward Pruning in Game-Tree Search, AAAI 2006, pdf
 * Yew Jin Lim, Wee Sun Lee (2006). RankCut - A Domain Independent Forward Pruning Method for Games. AAAI 2006, pdf
 * Yew Jin Lim (2007). On Forward Pruning in Game-Tree Search. Ph.D. thesis, National University of Singapore, pdf
 * Yew Jin Lim (2007). Variational Bayesian Approach to Movie Rating Prediction. KDD Cup and workshop 2007, pdf
 * Yew Jin Lim, Jürg Nievergelt (2009). Tigers and Goats is a draw. in Michael H. Albert, Richard J. Nowakowski (eds) (2009). Games of No Chance 3. Cambridge University Press, pdf

=External Links=
 * Yew Jin's Blog
 * Yew Jin Lim | LinkedIn
 * Yew Jin Lim - Google Scholar Citations

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