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Michel Goemans is the initial holder of the Leighton Family Professorship of Applied Mathematics, and Member of the Theory of Computation group at MIT-CSAIL. He received both the B.S. & M.S. degrees in applied mathematics from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 1987. He completed the Ph.D. in operations research from MIT in 1990. Professor Goemans continued at MIT as instructor of applied mathematics, 1990-92. He subsequently joined the MIT faculty in applied mathematics (professor, 2002). Goemans' research interests include combinatorial optimization and algorithms, in particular developing new techniques for designing approximation algorithms. He received the A.W. Tucker Prize (1991), the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize (1996 & 1999), the AMS Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize (2000), the IBM Faculty Partnership Award (2000), and the MIT School of Science Student Advising Award (2004). A prior Sloan fellow and NSF Career Awardee, Professor Goemans received a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship. In 2006, the department selected him for the Robert E. Collins Distinguished Scholarship. He was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2008 ``for contributions to the theory of approximation algorithms and mathematical programming." He received the Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society in 2012, and in 2013, elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.