Name: Michael J. Freedman     Email: mfreed%cs princeton edu Web: www.michaelfreedman.org Skype: mike dot freedman     Work#: 609-258-9179 Fax#: 609-258-1771     Princeton address Dept. of Computer Science Princeton University 35 Olden Street, #308 Princeton, NJ 08540-5233

Brief Bio

Michael J. Freedman is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, with a research focus on distributed systems, networking, and security. Prior to that, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from NYU's Courant Institute and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT. He developed and operates several self-managing systems -- including CoralCDN, a decentralized content distribution network, and DONAR, a server resolution system powering the FCC's Consumer Broadband Test -- which serve millions of users daily. Other research has included software-defined and service-centric networking, untrusted cloud services, fault-tolerant computer systems and storage, virtual world systems, peer-to-peer systems, and various privacy-enhancing and anti-censorship systems. Freedman's work on IP geolocation and intelligence led him to co-found Illuminics Systems, which was acquired by Quova, Inc. in 2006. His work on programmable enterprise networking (Ethane) helped form the basis for the OpenFlow / software-defined networking architecture. Honors include a Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, and DARPA Computer Science Study Group membership.

Longer Bio

Michael J. Freedman is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, with a research focus on distributed systems, networking, and security. Prior to that, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from NYU's Courant Institute and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT.

Freedman developed and operates several self-managing systems, including CoralCDN, a decentralized content distribution network that serves millions of users daily since 2004. Other research has included software-defined networking, service-centric networking and next-generation end-host stacks, untrusted cloud services, fault-tolerant computer systems and storage, virtual world systems, peer-to-peer systems, and various privacy-enhancing, anti-censorship, and anti-spam systems.

During a two-year research appointment at Stanford, Michael's work on IP geolocation and intelligence led him to co-found Illuminics Systems, which was acquired by Quova, Inc. in 2006. His work on programmable enterprise networking (Ethane) helped form the basis for the OpenFlow/SDN architecture being standardized by the Open Networking Foundation. His work on locality/load-based server selection (DONAR) provides name resolution for services on the Measurement Lab testbed, including those powering the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Consumer Broadband Test.

Honors include the Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, DARPA Computer Science Study Group membership, the Janet Fabri Prize for best NYU PhD thesis in CS, Princeton’s Emerson Electric Company / E. Lawrence Keyes Faculty Advancement Award, NDSEG and NSF graduate fellowships, and award papers at SIGCOMM, Eurocrypt, CCS, and LADIS. He has served on the technical program committees for SOSP, OSDI, SIGCOMM, NSDI, IEEE Security, CCS, HotOS, USENIX, and other top conferences. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Office of Naval Research, GENI Project Office, Sloan Foundation, Princeton's Grand Challenges Program, Cisco Systems, Intel, and Google.