Michel Xavier Goemans (born December 1964) is a Belgian-American professor of applied mathematics and the RSA Professor of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology working in discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization at CSAIL and MIT Operations Research Center.

[1] Goemans is the "Leighton Family Professor" of Applied Mathematics at MIT and an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo.

In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.

[6] In 2000 he was awarded the MOS-AMS Fulkerson Prize[7] for joint work with David P. Williamson on the semidefinite programming approximation algorithm for the maximum cut problem.

[8] In 2022 he received the AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.