Ashish Goel is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford in 1999, and was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California from 1999 to 2002, and a research fellow (on sabbatical) at Twitter, Inc in 2009-10, where he served as a technical advisor from 2010 to 2014. His research interests lie in the design, analysis, and applications of algorithms. Professor Goel is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan faculty fellowship (2004-06), a Terman faculty fellowship from Stanford, and an NSF Career Award (2002-07). He was also the recipient of a 3-COM faculty fellowship from the Stanford School of Engineering, and is a recipient of the inaugural Rajeev Motwani mentorship award.Current application domains of interest include social networks, Internet commerce, and dealing with large data.