# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-felten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:20:11.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-felten"
name: "Edward Felten"
slug: "edward-felten"
description: "Edward William Felten is an American computer scientist. At Princeton University, he served as the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, as well as being director of the Center for Information Technology Policy from 2007 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019. In the Obama administration, he served as chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission from 2011 to 2012 and as deputy chief technology officer of the United States from 2015 to 2017. Felten retired from Princeton University in July 2021. He then officially transitioned to Emeritus status. He also currently serves as Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs."
tagline: "Professor of computer science and public affairs"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_W._Felten%2C_PCLOB_Member_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.93
  momentum:             12.85714285714285
  historical:           4.613284
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/EdFelten"
    handle:    "EdFelten"
sources:
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    title: "ادوارد فلتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_W._Felten"
    title: "Edward W. Felten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten"
    title: "Edward Felten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EB%93%9C%EC%9B%8C%EB%93%9C_%ED%8E%A0%ED%8A%BC"
    title: "에드워드 펠튼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten"
    title: "Edward Felten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92932"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump