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Yew Jin Lim [1] 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].

Selected Publications

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

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

↑ 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
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