Michael J. Freedman

Michael J. Freedman
Born	Michael Joseph Freedman
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology New York University Stanford University
Awards	Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2011) Grace Murray Hopper Award (2018) ACM Fellow (2019) SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2021)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Princeton University
Thesis	Democratizing Content Distribution (2007)
Doctoral advisor	David Mazières

Michael J. Freedman is an American computer scientist who is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he works on distributed systems, networking, and security. He is also the cofounder of database company Timescale.