Mehryar Mohri is a Professor and theoretical computer scientist[2] at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

[3] Prior to joining the Courant Institute, Mohri was a Research Department Head and later Technology Leader at AT&T Bell Labs, where he was a Member of the Technical Staff for about ten years.

He is the author of several core algorithms that have served as the foundation for the design of many deployed speech recognition and natural language processing systems.

Mohri is currently the President of the Association for Algorithmic Learning Theory (AALT)[10] and the Steering Committee Chair for the ALT conference.

[11] He is also Editorial Board member of Machine Learning[12] and TheoretiCS,[13] Action Editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) and a member of the advisory board for the Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics.