Professor Shochat's scholarly work focuses on Mathematical Logic, in particular Model Theory. He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2006. His dissertation was on "Automorphisms of Short Recursively Saturated Models of Arithmetic" at CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Shochat joined the Mathematics Department in September 2002 and before that was a Mathematics Instructor at Medgar Evers College for four years. Dr. Shochat is a graduate of St. Francis College, Class of 1997, and a former co-captain of the College's soccer team. He was also inducted into the Duns Scotus Honor Society in 1996. He currently serves as the Chair of the Math Department and as the Faculty Athletics Representative. His articles appeared in the Notre Dame Journal of Symbolic Logic and the Mathematical Logic Quarterly. He is a member of the Mathematical Association of America and the Association for Symbolic Logic.