Before starting my position, I was a post-doc at the Theory Group of Microsoft Research , Seattle and a Miller fellow in Statistics and Computer Science here at U.C. Berkeley.
Research Interests: Combinatorial Statistics, Discrete
Fourier
analysis and Influences, Randomized Algorithms, Computational
Complexity, MCMC, Markov Random
Fields, Social Choice, Game
Theory, Evolution.
· Papers and Slides
[PAPERS (bib
file)]
[PAPERS (bibserver)]
· Program committees and workshop organization
Discrete
Harmonic Analysis in Probability and Computer Science (Cornell)
Markov
Chain Monte Carlo Methods (Newton Institute, Cambridge)
STOC
2008
Random and
Dynamic Graphs and Networks (IPAM, May 2007)
WABI
2005
Phase
Transitions in Computation and Reconstruction (MSRI, Mar 2005)
· Some past and future Talks.
· Graduate
Students:
Past: Sebastien Roch
(graduated May 2007; Currently at Microsoft Research)
Present: Omid Etesami
(advised jointly with Luca Trevisan)
Allan Sly
Arnab Sen (advised
jointly with Steve
Evans)
· Grants and Awards:
DOD ONR: Combinatorial Statistics on Trees and Networks 2007-2010 (N0014-07-1-05-06)
NSF Career Award: Applications of Probability Theory in Computer Science, Social Choice, Biology and Statistics 2006-2011 (DMS 0548249)
BSF:
Inapproximability, Unique Games and the Analysis of Boolean Functions
(with I. Dinur and O. Regev, BSF 2004105) This
grant proposal was also
awarded the ``Bergman prize'', 2006-2009.
NSF: Markov Random Fields: Structure and Algorithms 2005-2009 (with A. Sinclair and M. Wainwright, DMS 0528488)
NSF: Influence of Boolean Functions and Gibbs Measures on Trees, Foundations and Applications 2005-2006 (DMS 0504245)
[Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics '05].
Supported by Miller fellowship (2002-2005).
Spring 2008: [STAT 205B]
Old
Seminars:
Fall 2006:
Probability
Seminar
Voice: ++1 (510) 643 3799
Fax: ++1 (510) 642 7892
Email: mossel@stat
dot berkeley dot edu
Snail mail
Elchanan Mossel University of
California at Berkeley
Department of Statistics
367 Evans Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3860
USA