Ilan Goodman

Ilan Goodman is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis's McKelvey School of Engineering. He holds an MS (2016) and BS (2015) in Computer Science from Stanford University, with a BS in Physics also from Stanford.

His expertise focuses on theoretical/mathematical computer science, including data structures, algorithms, machine learning/AI, and data science/engineering. He has industry experience as a machine learning engineer at Meta's Reality Labs, data engineer at Robinhood's liquidity risk team, and data engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative advancing Summit Learning.

Ilan has extensive teaching experience: served as TA/head TA for over a dozen courses (e.g., CS 166, CS 109), section leader in CS 198 since 2012, and won the 2016 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award. His interests beyond academia include composing music, playing Ultimate Frisbee, hiking, and Giants baseball.