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Last Updated on 12/30/2025 | Click the PDF button for a condensed resume

Basics

Name Edward Friedman
Label Student
Email friedmanedward8@gmail.com | egfriedm@andrew.cmu.edu
Url https://edwardf8.github.io/
Summary Interested in pursing academia, focusing pursing the idea of "foundational" AI studies.

Work

  • 2024.06 - Present
    Machine Learning and Physics Research Intern
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Worked under Dr. William Ratcliff on machine learning methods to predict the space group(and extinction group) of crystal structures based solely on their XRD Patterns
    • Large Scale training and parameter optimization of ResNet-18 models for using various types of synthetically created patterns to investigate scaling behavior, effects of label distribution, and performance on real world data
    • Developed several data generation methods to create synthetic data from different types of distributions due to lack of labeled XRD patterns
    • Partipated in Summer High School Internship Program(SHIP) in summer of 2024 and the paid CORE program in summer of 2025
  • 2024.01 - 2024.06
    Machine Learning Research and Engineer Intern
    Khanjur R%D
    R%D company that focuses on the development of Shape Memory Alloys(SMAs). Analyzed effects of various machine learning algorithms on predicting martenistic transfomration tempearture of SMAs given company data
    • Wrote internal analysis paper on how well certain regression machine learning algorithms(Polynomial, L2 Regularization, Support Vector Machines) for predicting martenistic transformation temperatures of SMAs
    • Did Data analysis and cleaning for company lab results
    • Volunteered in company outreach initiatives to local schools by making SMA education kits for 4th graders

Education

  • 2025.01 - 2029.01

    Pittsburgh, PA, US

    B.Sc Computer Science with Machine Learning Concentration and Minor in Mathematics
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Computer Science and Machine Learning
    • Activities: CASI (Carnegie AI Safety Initiative), SCS SAC(School of CS Student Advisory Council), MMA ClubActivities and societies: CASI (Carnegie AI Safety Initiative), SCS SAC(School of CS Student Advisory Council), MMA Club
    • GPA: 3.78
    • Deans List: F25
    • AI Courses: 11-485: Introduction to Deep Learning, Concepts in AI
    • Math Courses: 15-151: Intro to Discrete/Proof Writing, 21-241: Linear Algebra(CS-Based Section), 21-266: Vector Calculus(with Linear Algebra)
    • Computer Science Courses: 15-122:Principles of Imperative Computation, 15-251 Intro to Theoretical CS
  • 2021.01 - 2025.01

    Silver Spring, MD

    High School
    Wheaton High School, Silver Spring, MD, United States
    General Studies

Volunteer

  • 2023.09 - 2025.05
    Head Instructor and Curriculum Developer
    Embed-Ed
    Club that I co-founded in HS that trained high school students to teach local middle schoolers programming and electronics in our underfunded part of the county
    • Co-Founded and was Co-President
    • Teaching 50+ Middle Schoolers at over 3+ Schools
    • Developing a curriculum, lesson plan, and lesson slides for Ardunio/beginner electronics and C++ programming
    • Creating a tutor training program that trained high school students to be ttuors
  • 2023.03 - 2025.05
    High School Tutor
    National Honor Society
    Tutored students in AP Physics, Algebra, Precalculus, Computer Science, and more!Tutored students in AP Physics, Algebra, Precalculus, Computer Science, and more!

Awards

Publications

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Skills

Technical
Python | Notable Libraries: Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib
PyTorch
Java
NumPy
Bash/Linux CLI
Slurm/HPC Computing
Knowledge Areas
Machine Learning/Deep Learning Fundamentals

Languages

English
Native speaker

Interests

Machine Learning
Interperability
Causality/Causal Representation Learning
Foundational AI