Erik Linstead
- Position: Graduate Student
- Area: Artificial Intelligence
- Advisor: Prof. Pierre Baldi
- Email: elinstea at ics dot uci dot edu
- Office: ICS II 263
Education
- UCI (Fall 2005 - Present)
- PhD Candidate - Information and Computer Science
- M.Sc. - Computer Science
- B.Sc. - Computer Science
- B.Sc. - Computer Information Systems
Research
I belong to a diverse group working in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics,
and software engineering. The common theme is
machine learning and information retrieval. Currently I am working on the
Sourcerer
project developing methods
for mining program function and developer contributions from source code, as well as improving the way Internet-scale
code
repositories are searched. I am also working on ChemDB, applying
text information retrieval to chemical
search.
Publications
E. Linstead,
P. Rigor, S. Bajracharya, C. Lopes, P. Baldi. Mining Internet-Scale Software
Repositories. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS*2007)
December 2007. (online)
E. Linstead,
P. Rigor, S. Bajracharya, C. Lopes, P. Baldi. Mining Concepts from Code with
Probabilistic Topic Models. Proceedings of ASE 2007: International Conference on Automated
Software
Engineering.
J. Chen, E. Linstead, S. Swamidass, D. Wang, P. Baldi. “ChemDB Update: Full-text Search and Virtual
Chemical Space” Bioinformatics. Volume 23, Number 17. September 2007. (advance access)
E. Linstead,
P. Rigor, S. Bajracharya, C. Lopes, P. Baldi. Mining Eclipse Developer Contributions via
Author-Topic Models. Fourth International
Workshop on Mining Software Repositories.
MN. May 2007. (Voted best paper, MSR “Scale” Challenge). (online)
S. Bajracharya, T. Ngo, E. Linstead,
Y. Dou, P. Rigor, P. Baldi & C. Lopes. Sourcerer:
A Search Engine for Open
Source Code
Supporting Structure-Based Search. OOPSLA ’06 Poster
Session.
About Me
I'm a third year PhD student working in the area of Artificial Intelligence in
the
Because I don't like having free time, I'm also an embedded software engineer
with the Boeing Company, where I spend most of
the day writing code for interesting projects.
Before going back to school I was a lecturer in the department of Math and
Computer Science at
taught courses in C/C++, Data Structures, AI, Computer Architecture, Graphics,
and Computer Ethics. I miss teaching
very much, and hope to return to Chapman when my schedule allows.
My wife, Jackie, teaches English at a local high school. We spend a
lot of time dreaming of all the traveling we
want to do when school is behind us. We really want to see the world, but
most of all, we want to spend some time away from our
beagles, Gatsby (left) and Scout (right), who drive us crazy!
Hobbies
My dad and I started restoring old Porsches when I was in high school. I
don't have time to keep up with it right now, but I still
own a 1969 911 S that we started working on my senior year. A couple of
years ago I became the proud owner of a new
2003 Boxster S. One of my loftier goals for the
future is to own a Ferrari, but for the time being I'm very, very content!
Links
My wife and mother-in-law have recently started a business, Forever Linens Chair Covers. They
specialize in chair covers, chair
treatments, and other linens for special events. If you’re interested, you can learn
about their various chair
covers and linens.