Tselil is currently a Simons-Berkeley research fellow at the Simons institute. In January 2021, she will join Stanford University as an assistant professor in the statistics department. Tselil obtained her PhD in Computer Science at UC Berkeley under the advisement of Prasad Raghavendra and Satish Rao, after which she did a postdoc with Boaz Barak, Jon Kelner, Ankur Moitra, and Pablo Parrilo at Harvard and MIT. Her research is in algorithms, with interests including optimization via convex programs (especially the sum-of-squares hierarchy), statistical and average-case problems, and information-computation tradeoffs.