Ankur Moitra

Ankur Moitra is Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as of July, 2017. He received tenure in July 2019. He received his B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell in 2007. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in computer science in 2009 and 2011 respectively, where he was advised by Tom Leighton and was supported by a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship. He received a George M. Sprowls Award (best thesis) and a William A. Martin Award (best thesis) for his doctoral and master's dissertations.