Elchanan Mossel became a professor of mathematics at MIT in 2016. He was previously a professor of statistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Elchanan was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since then, he was appointed as a postdoc in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research Redmond, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, a Miller Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, a professor of mathematics, applied mathematics and computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a professor of statistics and computer science at University of California, Berkeley.
He studies fundamental problems in probability and analysis, computational complexity and algorithms, as well as applications to machine learning, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, social choice and networks, and computational biology.