Elchanan Mossel

אלחנן מוסל     

I am a professor of

Statistics and Computer Science at 

UC Berkeley

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 

Teaching Spring 2013 : Stat 155 (Game Theory)  Stat 241B/CS281B (Statistical Learning Theory)

Quick links:

 

[PAPERS] (using bibserver)
Also via: Google Scholar, DBLP, Arxiv

[Scientists Science and Society Blog]

[Some Talks]

[For Prospective Students]

 

Current Graduate Students: 

Omer Tamuz (Weizmann Institute)

Miklos S. Racz (U.C. Berkeley)

Joe Neeman (U.C. Berkeley)

Siu On Chan (U.C. Berkeley, jointly with Luca Trevisan)

Siu Man Chan (U.C. Berkeley, jointly with Luca Trevisan)

Past Graduate Students:               

Sebastien Roch (graduated 2007; Currently at UCLA)

Allan Sly (graduated 2009; back at U.C. Berkeley)

Arnab Sen (graduated 2010; advised jointly with Steve Evans; currently at U. Minnesota)

                          

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:

I am currently supported by NSF (DMS 1106999 ) and ONR (DOD ONR grant N000141110140)

In the past I was supported by NSF (DMS 0528488 & 0504245 Career award 0548249)and  ONR (N0014-07-1-05-06) BSF(2004105 - this grant was also awarded the ``Bergman prize''), by a Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics and by a Miller fellowship.

At Weizmann I received grants from ISF (710279), EU (PIRG04-GA-2008-239317) and the Minerva Foundation

 

 

Recent Professional Activity:

Fall 2013: I am organizing a semester long program on Real Analysis in Computer Science at the newly founded Simons Institute.
Follow this link to learn more about the Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships .

July 2013: I will teach a course on " probability models of information exchange on networks"  at the Cornell Probability Summer School

Call for papers: Theory of Computing Special Issue on Analysis of Boolean functions (deadline Jan 15, co-edited with Ryan O'Donnell)

Spring 2012: I was a member at MSRI Random Spatial Process Program 

Winter 2012: Winter School on Discrete Fourier Analysis

I am a member of the editorial board of Electronic Journal of Probability and  Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse 

Old Seminars:  

 

Neyman Seminar (Sp 08) Probability Seminar (Fa 06)  Neyman Seminar (Fa 05)

 

Old courses:

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.

 

 

How to contact me

Fax: ++1 (510) 642 7892

Email: mossel@stat dot berkeley dot edu  (best way to contact me)

Snail mail:

Elchanan Mossel University of California at Berkeley 
Department of Statistics 367 Evans Hall  Berkeley, CA 94720-3860  USA