As a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, she became Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering[1][2] before leaving academia in 2008 to work for Google Research.[2][4]
Personal life
Goldman was married to Kenneth J. Goldman,[2] also a computer scientist from St. Louis with whom she went to Brown and MIT;[1] he also became a faculty member at Washington University and a researcher for Google. He died of cancer in 2020.[4]
After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to work for Google, Goldman took up amateur powerlifting,[5] and has won her division and weight class in multiple national and world championships held by USA Powerlifting (USAPL), the United States Powerlifting Association (USPA), and the International Powerlifting League (IPL).[6]
Book
Goldman is the coauthor, with Ken Goldman, of an undergraduate textbook, A Practical Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms using Java (CRC Press, 2007).