Michael Freedman is Chief of Mathematics at Logical Intelligence.

Freedman was awarded the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, for his work on the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture, a landmark discovery in topology.

Freedman has received many awards and honors, including Sloan and Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Medal of Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Mathematical Society.

The founding director of Microsoft’s quantum computing program, Freedman also has an appointment at Harvard’s Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications.