Leo Goldmakher received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Princeton University and his PhD in mathematics at University of Michigan. Following a postdoctoral fellowship and assistant professorship at University of Toronto, he joined the faculty of Williams. He has also worked in several areas of number theory--algebraic number theory, multiple Dirichlet series, random matrices and random graphs, probabilistic number theory, and the burgeoning theory (pioneered by Bhargava) of higher composition laws.