Sam Friedman

Computational Research Support at Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

About

I am pursuing an engaging career at the intersection of exploration and computation.

Experience

  • Computational Research Support Analyst at Yale University
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    - Develop software tooling to assist in managing Yale's High Performance Computing clusters. - Assist Yale's scientific researchers with designing, implementing, and troubleshooting workloads for Yale's High Performance Computing clusters.

  • Staff Bioinformaticist at Yale University School of Medicine
    Sep 2021 - Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    I work alongside clinicians and research biologists to develop software that enables large-scale analysis of biological data, helps answer research questions, and streamlines the process and pipelines of oncological research.

  • Lockheed Martin (New York City Metropolitan Area)
    • Data Scientist, APAI
      Jun 2018 - Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      • Identify, design, and guide machine learning projects from concept to deployment. • Collect, clean, process, and make available large-volume datasets from the domains of industrial machine health, manufacturing, natural language, visual inspection, and related fields. • Establish and curate best practices and a community of practice in machine learning. • Organize and lead training, mentorship, and solution sharing within the team and broader enterprise. • Drive strategic vision for machine learning and for our team.

    • Data Scientist, Sikorsky iTAS
      Feb 2017 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

      • Build, validate and deploy machine learning models. • Develop processes to query, transform and utilize "big data" sources via distributed computing. • Design front-end interfaces and dashboards for interaction with predictive models. • Automate classification of high-volume data records. • Predict part time to failure based on operational parameters. • Convey learned best practices and methodology to team and organization. • Communicate methodology and results to team, stakeholders and customers.

  • Data Analyst at Sikorsky
    Mar 2016 - Feb 2017 · 1 yr

    • Leverage data from Sikorsky S-76 and S-92 helicopter fleet to provide valuable intelligence for Sikorsky and customers. • Analyze high-volume data with SQL and Python to fill ad-hoc information requests. • Build and support interactive dashboards with Tableau. • Perform statistical analyses using tools such as R and Python. • Apply machine learning tools for advanced predictive modeling. • Develop tailored simulation solutions for predictive demand planning.

  • Edison Engineering Development Program at GE Aviation
    Jun 2015 - Mar 2016 · 10 mos

    • Member of design engineering group for military inlet & exhaust development programs. • Perform and oversee design and analysis for core components in experimental afterburner design program. • Conduct thermal and stress analysis to prove viability of designs. • Support hardware vendors to ensure on-time and on-budget procurement and delivery of components. • Present designs and justification in technical reviews to Chief Engineer's Office.