Alyssa Ann Goodman (born July 1, 1962)[2] is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, former co-director for Science[3] at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, and the founding director of the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing.

Goodman's research is conducted at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she studies the dense gas between stars.

Goodman's personal research presently focuses primarily on new ways to visualize and analyze the tremendous data volumes created by large and/or diverse astronomical surveys.

She has worked closely with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay on the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope project[6] at Microsoft Research and the American Astronomical Society to create, open-source, and enhance the use of the WorldWide Telescope, a computer program offering a virtual online universe to researchers and educators.

She founded PredictionX, a modular learning program at Harvard that traces humanity's effort to understand the future.