Michel Xavier Goemans (born December 1964) is a Belgian-American professor of applied mathematics and the RSA Professor of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology working in discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization at CSAIL and MIT Operations Research Center.
Career Goemans earned his doctorate in 1990 from MIT. Goemans is the "Leighton Family Professor" of Applied Mathematics at MIT and an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo. He was also a professor at the University of Louvain and a visiting professor at the RIMS of the University of Kyoto.
Recognition In 1991 he received the A.W. Tucker Prize. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Sloan Research Fellow. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. For the academic year 2007–2008 he Guggenheim Fellow.
Goemans is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008),Michel Goemans, ACM Fellows, United States 2008, retrieved 2015-10-19 a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012),List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19. and a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2013).SIAM Fellows: Class of 2013, retrieved 2015-10-19. In 2000 he was awarded the MOS-AMS Fulkerson PrizePast Winners of the Fulkerson Prize, retrieved 2015-10-19. for joint work with David P. Williamson on the semidefinite programming approximation algorithm for the maximum cut problem. In 2012 Goemans was awarded the Farkas Prize. In 2022 he received the AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research 2022
Personal life His hobby is sailing. Goemans has Belgian and US citizenship.
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