Yew Jin Lim

Current

• Software Engineer at Google

Past

• Research Fellow at National University of Singapore
• Naval Officer at Republic of Singapore Navy

Education

• National University of Singapore
• University of Waterloo

Connections

35 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Yew Jin Lim’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  - Research and implementation of Cross Language Information Retrieval. Very exciting.
  
  Mentions of this technology.
  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/search-without-boundaries.html
  
  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/technologies-behind-google-ranking.html
  
  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/our-international-approach-to-search.html

• Research Fellow

  National University of Singapore

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

  Pursued independent R&D on real-time strategy (RTS) game AI and collaborative filtering.
  
  In this job, I was team leader of NUS entry to ORTS Game AI Competition 2007 which won two of four categories, and worked on the Netflix prize competition, which resulted in a workshop paper:
  
  Y. J. Lim, and Y. W. Teh, Variational Bayesian Approach to Movie Rating Prediction. KDD Cup and Workshop 2007.

• Naval Officer

  Republic of Singapore Navy

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

  July 2000 — November 2002 (2 years 5 months)

  Graduated from Officer Cadet School with “Best in Seamanship”, produced IT solutions to automate tedious tasks and supervised a team of military personnel. Currently serving as a Lieutenant in the Singapore military reserve force.

Yew Jin Lim’s Education

• National University of Singapore

  PhD , Computer Science , 2003 — 2007

  Dissertation titled “On Forward Pruning In Game-Tree Search”, 2007, based on papers presented in AAAI-06 and published in the ICGA Journal.
  
  Received Dean’s Graduate Award in 2007.
  
  Funded by A*Star-NUS Graduate Fellowship from Jan 2003 to Jan 2007.

• University of Waterloo

  BMath , Pure Mathematics and Computer Science , 1997 — 2000

  BMath with Distinction in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science. Graduated in 2 years 8 months from the usual 4 year programme.
  
  Teaching Assistant, University of Waterloo — 1999-2000
  Tutored students and marked assignments for Linear Algebra 1 and Calculus 1, 2

Additional Information

Yew Jin Lim’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Yew Jin Lim’s Honors:

Team Leader of NUS entry to ORTS Game AI Competition 2007 that won “Strategic Combat” and “Tactical Combat” categories - May 2007

National University of Singapore Dean’s Graduate Award - Mar 2007

AAAI-06 Scholarship

Apple Student Scholarship to WWDC 2005 and 2006

IEEE NNS 2003 Student Travel Grant for CEC 2003

A*Star-NUS Graduate Fellowship - Jan 2003 — Jan 2007

University of Waterloo Term Dean's Honours List - Fall 1997, Winter 1998

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