Edray Herber Goins

Edray Herber Goins is professor of mathematics and statistics at Pomona College. He has worked as a researcher at both Harvard University and the National Security Agency, and has taught at both the California Institute of Technology and Purdue University. Goins has published more than 25 journal articles, in areas such as applied mathematics, graph theory, number theory, and representation theory; and on topics such as Diophantine equations, elliptic curves, and African Americans in mathematics. In fact, he has an Erdős number of 2. Goins has given more than 300 invited addresses on his research, acted as a referee for nearly 20 mathematics journals, served on dozens of panels for the National Science Foundation, and been awarded more than $1.37 million in external funding. Goins currently maintains the Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (MAD Pages) website and runs Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience, a federally -funded Research Experience for Undergraduates.