Yew Jin Lim
Yew Jin Lim, [2]
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 [3].
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 [4] [5].
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
References
- ↑ Meeting A Singaporean Working At Google, October 11, 2017
- ↑ In Asia, the standard template for names is reversed i.e., [LAST NAME] [FIRST NAME]. To avoid any confusion, my last name is Lim. My first name consists of two separate words, Yew Jin, and when pronounced, sounds like "Eugene".
- ↑ Lim Yew Jin - Homepage
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Rules for Tigers and Goats
- ↑ ICGA Reference Database
- ↑ About Me - Yew Jin's Sometimes Blog
- ↑ dblp: Yew Jin Lim