About Li-Lun Wang

Officially, my name is Li-Lun Wang or 王立綸 in Chinese. I am also known as Leland Wang. I retired from R.O.C. Air Force as a Second Lieutenant in February, 2004. I graduated from UIUC as a PhD in CS. I joined Google Research as a software engineer since 2012.

Research and Education

I have obtained the degree of BSE from the National Taiwan University. I am interested in many subjects in computer science, especially those related to artificial intelligence. My undergraduate research is about machine learning and support vector machines. I worked with Professor Gerald DeJong on my PhD.

Publications

• Qiang Sun, Li-Lun Wang, and Gerald DeJong. Explanation-Based Learning for Image Understanding. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. July, 2006.
• K.-M. Chung, W.-C. Kao, C.-L. Sun, L.-L. Wang, and C.-J. Lin. Radius Margin Bounds for Support Vector Machines with the RBF Kernel. Neural Computation, 15. November, 2003.

Education

• PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2004--August 2012.
• BSE, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, September 1998--June 2002.
• Chien-Kuo Senior High School, September 1995--June 1998.
• Taipei Municipal Jie-Shou Junior High School, September 1992--June 1995.
• Taipei Municipal Minsheng Primary School, September 1986--June 1992.

Awards and Competitions

• National Taiwan University Student Service Education Award, 2002, an award for the top 5% students excelled in the service courses.
• 2nd Trend Micro Natural Born Programmer Contest, 2001. Honorable Mention.
• ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2000 Asia Regional, Taipei Site. Eighth.
• ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 1999 Asia Regional, Taipei Site. Sixth Place.
• National Collegiate Programming Contest 1999. Third Prize.
• Presidential Award of National Taiwan University, 1999, an award for the top 5% students.
• National Problem Solving Contest (NPSC) 1998. Champion.

Experience

I list some of my extracurricular and working experiences here.

• Computer Hardware Engineer, Second Lieutenant, 4th Control Report Center, Tactic Wing, R.O.C. Air Force, 2002--2004.
• Research Assistant to Prof. Chih-Jen Lin, 2001--2002.
• Part-time Programmer, Information System Lab, Insitute for Information Industry, 2000--2001.
• Lab Assistant, Intel Lab, CSIE, NTU, 1999--2001.
• Short-term Programmer, Department of Optical Information Technology, Schmidt Scientific Taiwan Ltd., 1998.
• System Administrator, Network Center, Chien-Kuo Senior High School, 1996--1997.
• Academic Officer, Information Club, 1996--1997.

Projects

Here I list some of my interesting projects and personal hacks.

Projects

Many of the projects are from the courses I took in the university.

• File Sharing Community, Honorable Mention of Trend Micro Natural Born Programmer Contest 2001.
• A Scheme to Oolong compiler, Final project of Compiler.
• 8051 motherboard, project of Microprocessor Experiment.
• A Korn-like shell, assignment of Advanced System Programming.
• A CPU pipeline simulator, project of Architecture.
• An SIC/XE assembler, assignment of System Software.
• An m4-like macro processor, assignment of System Software.
• An untraceable program, assignment of Assembly.

Hacks

I have been using FreeBSD since 1996 and am the maintainer of several FreeBSD ports. Most hacks here are for the UNIX-like environments, especially for FreeBSD.

• Input tables of array30, phonetic, cj, and simplex input method on the dvorak keyboard layout for xcin-2.5.3pre2.
• The above tables for xcin-2.5.3pre3 that are UTF-8 ready are also available here.

Contact Information

Please email any comments and suggestions to me at my GMail address llvvang (note the double v). You can find my pgp public key here; the fingerprint of my public key is 5F58 1A18 2D61 FCF0 7594 BDFF 0903 3BB7 9076 9A10.