Eriq Augustine
Graduate Student Researcher
California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolEriq Augustine is a PhD candidate and graduate student researcher in Machine Learning at UC Santa Cruz’s LINQS lab with 14 years of software and teaching experience. He previously balanced a senior software developer role in master data management with lecturing and tutoring at Cal Poly, giving him deep pragmatic experience in system architecture, algorithms, and scalable engineering. His research focus spans machine learning, data mining, and natural language processing, grounded in hands-on production software development. Eriq views software as a tool-builder’s craft—creating systems that enable others to succeed—and brings that philosophy to both research and industry projects. Outside of academia he tinkers with custom computer case builds and studies new programming languages, reflecting a persistent curiosity that informs his technical breadth.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
japanese, chinese, french
Github Skills (27)
php10
psl10
pac10
artificial-intelligence9
machine-learning8
source-code-analysis7
problog7
plagiarism-detection7
fuzzy-matching7
logic6
prolog6
wpe6
probabilistic6
probabilistic-soft-logic6
lms6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
edulinq/autograder-server
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
A server to automatically grading coding assignments.
Contributions:410 reviews, 63 PRs, 564 pushes in 1 year 9 months
linqs/pujara-emnlp17
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
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