Michael J. Freedman

Michael J. Freedman is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and co-founder/CTO of Timescale. He received his Ph.D. from NYU’s Courant Institute and degrees from MIT.

• Current roles: Professor, Co-founder & CTO
• Affiliations: Princeton University, SNS Group, CITP Associate
• Education: Ph.D. (NYU), S.B./M.Eng. (MIT)

His research spans distributed systems, networking, and security, with innovations like CoralCDN, DONAR, and Ethane. His work impacts decentralized content delivery, software-defined networking, and privacy-enhancing technologies.

His recent publications address scalable fusion algorithms, GPU acceleration for data systems, and distributed GPU resource management. These works intersect with cloud infrastructure, network optimization, and security.

Scientific honors include:

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
• Sloan Fellowship
• NSF CAREER Award
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
• Test of Time Award (Theory of Crypto Conference)
• ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award

He advises graduate students like Sam Ginzburg and Ashwini Raina, who joined Meta AI and Timescale post-PhD. His projects have secured substantial grants, including $110M Series C funding for Timescale.

Key labs/teams:

• Princeton SNS Group
• Co-founder, Timescale (enterprise data platform)
• Co-founder, iobeam (IoT analytics, acquired by Timescale)
• Collaboration with FCC on Consumer Broadband Test
• Contributions to OpenFlow/SDN standardization