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Jordan C. Feidler
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Principal Scientist |
Mr.
Feidler is a principal scientist within The MITRE Corporation. MITRE is a
not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest; it manages
three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs). Mr. Feidler
is part of the Emerging Technologies Office within the Department of Defense (DoD)
FFRDC.
He
received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from The Pennsylvania State
University in 1992. He received an MS in computer science from The University
of Michigan in 1994 and an MS in neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh
in 1999.
His
research efforts in neurobiology, for which he was awarded a three-year
pre-doctoral National Research Service Award from the National Institute of
Mental Health, involved using extracellular single-unit recording techniques and
computational modeling studies to investigate receptive-field properties in the
lateral geniculate nucleus and primary visual cortex.
At MITRE
, Mr. Feidler has been leading the development of a life science work program
within the DoD FFRDC. Mr. Feidler assembled and led a MITRE team to pursue
research involving information management in the neuroscience community. This
project is currently co-funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the
National Science Foundation, and the MITRE Technology Program. The goal of
MITRE’s Neuroinformatics Program is to design, prototype, and evaluate an
information infrastructure for human brain mapping data which will help realize
the full potential of this growing store of data.
In
addition, for the past 2.5 years, Mr. Feidler has supported the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) BioComputation program. Working closely with
the DARPA Program Manager, Dr. Sri Kumar, his primary role in the BioCOMP
program has been to identify novel research in the areas of cell biology,
bioinformatics, and computational biology that are of high impact and have the
potential to become new program elements.
Finally,
Mr. Feidler is the Principal Investigator of an internal research project
involving computational biology and biotechnology. This project is conducted in
close collaboration with the Molecular Pathology Department at the Walter Reed
Army Institute of Research and entails using computational modeling techniques
to elucidate the mechanisms by which biological warfare agents act to perturb
normal cellular processes. | 
