Scott Friedman
AI Research Fellow at SIFT (Smart Information Flow Technologies)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Friedman is an AI Research Fellow with over a decade of experience leading government‑funded R&D to tackle hard problems in AI, ML, NLP, and human–machine collaboration. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern and a long tenure at SIFT, he has moved from researcher to principal scientist and now leads advanced projects that translate cognitive and qualitative models into operational tools for intelligence analysis, computational biology, and cybersecurity. He blends deep academic training with practical systems experience dating back to distributed computing and enterprise analytics roles, giving him a rare ability to bridge theory and deployed applications. Based in Minneapolis, he is known for framing human-centered AI solutions that emphasize interpretability and collaboration rather than black‑box automation.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (14)
lexical-analysis8
grammars8
linguistics8
language-understanding8
languagetool8
grammar6
nlp6
natural-language-understanding5
natural-language-processing5
common-lisp3
lisp2
client-server2
ws2
websocket2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
ddmcdonald/sparser
Apr 2015 - Feb 2016
A natural language understanding system for English
Contributions:27 commits, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
nlpunderstandingnatural-language-understandinggrammarlanguagetool
fukamachi/websocket-driver
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
WebSocket server/client implementation for Common Lisp
Contributions:1 comment, 2 issues in 1 day
wsclient-serverwebsocket-serverwebsocketlisp
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