Ashish Goel is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University, and a member of Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford in 1999 advised by Serge Plotkin, and was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California from 1999 to 2002. His research interests lie in the design, analysis, and applications of algorithms; current application areas of interest include social networks, Internet commerce, and large scale data processing. Ashish is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan faculty fellowship (2004-06), a Terman faculty fellowship from Stanford, an NSF Career Award (2002-07), and a Rajeev Motwani mentorship award (2010). He was a co-author on the paper that won the best paper award at WWW 2009. Ashish currently holds the 3COM faculty fellowship in Stanford's School of Engineering, and serves on the technical advisory board of Twitter, Inc.

Ian Post is a graduate student at Stanford advised by Ashish Goel. His research interests are in algorithms.