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Elchanan Mossel
אלחנן מוסל
I was a professor of statistics and computer science at U.C. Berkeley until 2016.
I moved to MIT.
This page is no longer maintained.
My new page at MIT
I am from Jerusalem where I was awarded a PhD in Math at the Hebrew University, advised by Yuval Peres.
Before starting my position, I was a post-doc at the Theory Group of Microsoft Research , Redmond
and a Miller fellow in Statistics and Computer Science here at U.C. Berkeley.
During the years 2008-2010 I was at the Weizmann Institute.
Research Interests:
Combinatorial Statistics, Discrete Fourier Analysis and Influences,
Randomized Algorithms, Computational Complexity, MCMC, Markov Random Fields,
Social Choice, Game Theory, Evolution
Quick links:
Papers via: Google Scholar, DBLP,Arxiv
Former Graduate Students:
Sebastien Roch (graduated 2007; Currently at U. Madison Wisconsin)
Allan Sly (graduated 2009; back at U.C. Berkeley)
Arnab Sen (graduated 2010; advised jointly with Steve Evans; currently at U. Minnesota)
Joe Neeman (graduated 2013)
Siu On Chan (graduated 2013 ; advised jointly with Luca Trevisan)
Siu Man Chan (graduated 2013 ; advised jointly with Luca Trevisan)
Omer Tamuz (graduated 2013 from Weizmann Institute)
Miklos S. Racz (Graduated 2015, Currently at Microsoft Research)
Former Masters Students: Thurston Dang (2013)
PostDocs mentored:
Jan Arpe (currently at Bertelsmann Foundation)
Nathan Keller (at Weizmann institute; currently at Bar Ilan University)
Tamir Tuller (at Weizmann institute; currently at Tel-Aviv University)
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Grants and Awards:
Current support: NSF (DMS 1106999 and CCF 1320105) ONR (DOD ONR grant N000141110140)
Previous support: NSF (DMS 0528488 & 0504245 & Career award 0548249) ONR (N0014-07-1-05-06) BSF(2004105 - this grant was also awarded the ``Bergman prize'')
Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics Miller fellowship ISF (710279) EU (PIRG04-GA-2008-239317) & Minerva Foundation.
Professional Activity:
Summer 2014: PIMS Summer School in Probability.
Fall 2013: A semester long program on Real Analysis in Computer Science at the newly founded Simons Institute.
July 2013: A course on " probability models of information exchange on networks" at the Cornell Probability Summer School
Spring 2012: I was a member at MSRI Random Spatial Process Program
Winter 2012: Winter School on Discrete Fourier Analysis
Editorial Boards:
1. Electronic Journal of Probability/ Electronic Communication in Probability
2.Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse
3. Theory of Computing Special Issue on Analysis of Boolean functions (deadline Jan 15, 2013, co-edited with Ryan O'Donnell) - no more submissions please!
Old courses:
Sp 2014: [Algorithms (CS170)]
SP13:[STAT 155 - Game Theory] [Stat 241B/CS281B - Statistical Learning Theory]
FA11: [CS 174 - Randomized Algorithms]
FA10: [CS 294 (063) / Econ 207 A / Math C223A / Stat 206 - Social Choice and Networks]
SP10: [Combinatorial Statistics (Weizmann)] Syllabus
FA09: [Topics in Game Theory and Social Choice for Teachers (Weizmann)]
SP08: [Stat155 - Game Theory (HW Page)] [Stat205B - Graduate level Probability]
FA06: [Stat134 - Introduction to Probability] [Stat206A - Stochastic Processes: Gibbs Measures]
FA05: [Stat134 - Introduction to Probability] [Stat206A - Stochastic Processes: Polynomials of Random Variables (Discrete Fourier Analysis)]
Co-taught Coding theory(CSE522/Math581EB). University of Washington. Fall 2001.
Old Seminars: Neyman Seminar (Sp 08), Probability Seminar (Fa 06), Neyman Seminar (Fa 05)