Research Fellow
SIFT
Minneapolis, MN, United States
Dr. Friedman is a Research Fellow at SIFT specializing in AI, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Science with over 15 years of experience in applied AI R&D. He has authored over 70 refereed publications and book chapters in AI/ML, computational social science, human-machine team analysis, cognitive science, and cybersecurity. He has served as reviewer and program committee for AI Journal, AAAI, CogSci, Advances in Cognitive Systems, and Informatica, and he chaired the 2015 International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. He has delivered invited talks for NATO’s Human Factors and Medicine panel (RTO-HFM 330), the DoD Human Factors Technology Advisory Group, University of Minnesota, and University of Florida.
He is presently PI on multiple programs funded by DARPA and the U.S. Department of Defense and he recently led NLP efforts for DARPA Understanding Group Bias, DARPA Big Mechanism, and DARPA CWC projects. Before joining SIFT in 2012, he received university graduate fellowships at Northwestern University, including a Cognitive Science Advanced Graduate Research Fellowship to support his dissertation research on large-scale belief revision and knowledge representation in scientific domains.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
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