Research Interests

• Experimental Algorithms
• Machine Learning
• Computational Biology
• Human Computer Interaction

Thesis Project

• A Machine Learning Approach for Designing Dynamic Programmming Algorithms [postscript]

Collaboration

Machine and Computational Learning at RPI I created and currently maintain the website of the Machine Learning group at RPI.

Applied Learning Sciences at IBM In the summer of 1999, I worked as a research intern for the Applied Learning Sciences group at IBM.

Publications

• Learning Significant Alignments: An Alternative to Normalized Local Alignment," Eric A. Breimer, Mark K. Goldberg, International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, June 27-29, 2002, Lyon, France [postscript] [pdf]
• "A Supervised Learning Approach for Detecting Significant Local Alignments," Eric A. Breimer, Mark K. Goldberg, International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, April 18-21, 2002, Washington DC [postscript] [pdf]
• "On the Height of a Random Set of Points in a d-dimensional Unit Cube," Eric A. Breimer, Mark K. Goldberg, Brian Kolstad, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Journal of Experimental Mathematics [postscript] [pdf] [source code]
• "Experimental Evaluation of the Height of a Random Set of Points in a d-dimensional Cube," Eric A. Breimer, Mark K. Goldberg, Brian Kolstad, Malik Magdon-Ismail, 3nd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, January 5-7, 2001, Washington DC [postscript] [pdf]
• "A Learning Algorithm for the Longest Common Subsequence Problem," Eric A. Breimer, Mark K. Goldberg, Darren T. Lim, 2nd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, January 7-8, 2000, San Francisco (submitted to Journal of Experimental Algorithmics). [postscript] [pdf]
• "A Task-based Architecture for Application-aware Adjuncts," Robert Farrell, Peter Fairweather, Eric Breimer, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, January 9-12, 2000, New Orleans. [pdf] [doc]
• "Case Study of a Learning Algorithm for the Longest Common Subsequence Problem," Eric A. Breimer, Mark K. Goldberg, TR 98-3. [postscript] [pdf]
• "Exploring Collaborative Learning in Rensselaer's Classroom-in-the-Round," Robert F.Dugan, Eric A. Breimer, Darren T. Lim, Ephraim P. Glinert, Mark K. Goldberg, TR 98-1. [postscript] [pdf]