Edward G. Friedman

CS @ CMU | Intern @ NIST under Dr. Ratcliff & CMU under Xiangchen Song

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the way I cope with my insecurities is by studying. not a tech bro or startup bro 🙏



Research Interests:

Long Term: Most interested in the idea of gaining a “foundational understanding of AI” and how that knowledge can be leveraged for AI safety and safety-adjacent topics.

Short Term: Currently exploring Causality and Interpretability (Spec, the intersection of Causal Representation Learning and Mechanistic Interpretability).


Personal Bio:

Interested in pursing a career in academia as a professor as of now. Outside of academics I like working out, music, and learning ab random things. I think i’ll make a music and reading page during a summer maybe!

news

Apr 30, 2026 I have a new preprint out on applying AI to predicting material crystal symmetry
Apr 22, 2026 I will be TAing 15-251 in the fall next sem :)
Feb 12, 2026 Joining CASI board!
Sep 22, 2025 Finished my first semester @ cmu, read about here!

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