
He moved to a full-time position at the United Nations in 2007 where he has since been a lead on work including the ICPD 15 Costing, High Level Task Force on Innovative Financing, and the Adding It Up reports. He left Capital One to form Analytic Solutions LLC in 2003 which provided consulting services in areas of designing, developing and modeling data. He has also contributed to areas of changepoint detection as it applies to neurophysiology.įriedman was awarded a number of awards during his undergraduate and graduate career including the National Merit Scholarship, Whitaker Foundation Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship NSF-GRFįollowing his dissertation work, Friedman took a position as a director at Capital One where he led teams of statisticians, analysts and programmers in various areas of operations and marketing. This research leveraged a visual phenomenon known as Troxler's fading which is related to color filling-in to explore how object color is represented in the visual cortex. His thesis work focused on neural representations of object color through neurophysiological records of awake, behaving monkeys. He received a master's in statistics in 1998 and PhD in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1999. Friedman was born in New York City and received his bachelor's degree from Binghamton University in applied physics in 1993.
