Leslie Ann Goldberg MAE is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

[2][3][4] Her research concerns the design and analysis of algorithms for random sampling and approximate combinatorial enumeration.

[5][6] Goldberg did her undergraduate studies at Rice University[4] and completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1992[7] under the joint supervision of Mark Jerrum[1] and Alistair Sinclair[citation needed] after she was awarded the Marshall Scholarship.

[citation needed] Her dissertation, on algorithms for listing structures with polynomial delay, won the Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science prize.

[5][10][11][12] Goldberg serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms,[13] and has served as program chair of the algorithms track of the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) in 2008.