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People / Brendan Fong

CEO & Trustee (UK)

About

Brendan Fong oversees coordination and strategic planning at Topos. He holds a PhD in computer science from Oxford, and undertook postdoctoral studies in systems engineering and mathematics at UPenn and MIT. He is a founding executive editor of the open-access journal Compositionality, and co-authored the textbook An Invitation to Applied Category Theory. Brendan believes technologies of connection and integration are already transforming the world we live in, and is dedicated to ensuring that these transformations benefit society-at-large.

Personal website
http://brendanfong.com/

Blog posts

Title Date
Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place? (Quanta) 2026-03-18
A Category Theory-Inspired BBN 2025-03-11
Applied Category Theory for Engineering Design: A Teaser Video 2024-06-03
Launching new collaboration with Chapman University 2024-05-28
SCAI — AI for the Global Good 2024-02-02
Topos researchers win Best Paper Award at AAAI Fall Symposium 2023 2023-11-17
Welcoming our new Director of Research, Shaowei Lin 2023-06-22
Ask Eugenia Cheng about Category Theory! 2023-02-09
Statement on Topos and the FTX Foundation 2022-11-19
Who is category theory for? 2022-11-04
In celebration of Dana Scott 2022-10-09
Ethics, Technology, and Embracing the 21st Century 2022-10-07
Strategies for ethically oriented pursuit of research and technology 2022-08-24
All models are wrong, but… 2022-06-07
Join Topos as a senior leader in finance and operations! 2022-05-20
So, what’s the plan? 2022-03-15
We’re looking for a postdoc! 2021-10-08
Get to know our Summer Research Associates 2021-07-19
Introducing the MathFoldr Project 2021-07-11
Welcome to the Topos Blog 2021-06-30
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