Edray Herber Goins grew up in South Los Angeles, California. The product of the Los Angeles Unified (LAUSD) public school system, Dr. Goins attended the California Institute of Technology (http://www.caltech.edu/), where he majored in mathematics and physics, and earned his doctorate in mathematics from Stanford University (http://www.stanford.edu/). Dr. Goins is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University (http://www.math.purdue.edu/) in West Lafayette, Indiana. He works in the field of number theory, as it pertains to the intersection of representation theory and algebraic geometry.