Education
After completing his Doctor of Philosophy, Goldberg was on the faculty of Stanford University and worked for Nippon Electric Corporation Research Institute, Intertrust STAR Laboratories, and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Laboratory
After completing his Doctor of Philosophy, Goldberg was on the faculty of Stanford University and worked for Nippon Electric Corporation Research Institute, Intertrust STAR Laboratories, and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Laboratory
He also worked on mechanism design, computer systems, and complexity theory. Currently he is a Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon.com. Goldberg did his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1982.
After earning a masters degree at the University of California, Berkeley, he returned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finishing his doctorate there in 1987 with thesis titled Efficient graph algorithms for sequential and parallel computers and adviser Charles East. Leiserson.
He joined Amazon.com in 2014.
Goldberg holds a number of awards, including the 1988 A.W. Tucker Prize of the Mathematical Optimization Society, 1988 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and 2011 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Optimization Society Farkas Prize. In 2012–2013, Goldberg was a Founding Faculty Fellow of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. Goldberg was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2009 "for contributions to fundamental theoretical and practical problems in the design and analysis of algorithms." In 2013, he became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.