PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jason Reed

Jason Reed is a computer scientist and research software engineer whose work connects formal proof systems with AI-assisted mathematics. He published research on proof irrelevance and hybrid logical frameworks, and completed a computer science PhD under Frank Pfenning at Carnegie Mellon in 2009. Through Lean FRO, he recruited for a collaborative mathematical workbench in August 2025 and led interface-tool work at a National Academies event in July 2026; Lean Workbench offers browser access to Lean and Verso Blueprint projects with AI preconfigured. As of October 2026, he is a Principal Research Software Engineer at Lean FRO.

Timeline

  1. 2003

    Higher-order unification for proof irrelevance

    In 2003, he publishes Extending Higher-Order Unification to Support Proof Irrelevance, a paper on proof irrelevance.

  2. 2004

    Redundancy elimination for LF

    At LFM 2004, he presents Redundancy Elimination for LF.

  3. 2006

    Hybridizing a logical framework

    In 2006, he publishes Hybridizing a Logical Framework.

  4. 2007

    Intuitionistic labelled deduction

    In 2007, he coauthors Intuitionistic Letcc via Labelled Deduction with Frank Pfenning.

  5. 2009

    PhD and constraint simplification

    In August 2009, he completes a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon under Frank Pfenning, with a dissertation on a hybrid logical framework for stateful deductive systems. His 2009 LFMTP paper is Higher-Order Constraint Simplification in Dependent Type Theory.

  6. August 2025–July 2026

    A collaborative Lean workbench

    In August 2025, he announces Lean FRO funding for a mathematical workbench where mathematicians collaborate through familiar informal writing with Lean's rigor and correctness guarantees, and recruits for its Literate Programming and Next Generation UX work. At the National Academies event in July 2026, he leads a Lean FRO team building next-generation interface tools for easier entry, teaching and web collaboration. He builds Lean Workbench as a zero-install browser workspace for Lean and Verso Blueprint projects with AI preconfigured; Lean checks AI-generated proofs.

  7. As of October 2026

    Principal Research Software Engineer

    As of October 2026, he is a Principal Research Software Engineer at Lean FRO.

Career

  1. NowLean Focused Research OrganizationPrincipal Research Software Engineer

Education

  1. 2009Carnegie Mellon UniversityPhD

From the biography.

  1. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Convergent Research. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Carnegie Mellon University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Carnegie Mellon University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Carnegie Mellon University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.

Sources and credits

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  1. Papers — Jason Reed cs.cmu.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Jason Reed — Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department csd.cmu.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. LFMTP 2009 workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Lean FRO: Research Software Engineer (Tooling) — Zulip Archive leanprover-community.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Certificates, Not Proofs: A Panel on Where Formalization Actually Stands mit.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. The Lean Theorem Prover: Design, Evolution, and Impact leodemoura.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Machine-Checked Mathematics in the Age of AI leodemoura.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Team — Lean Lang lean-lang.org. Checked 21 October 2026.