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Nov 18, 2021 · Jelani Nelson, the creator of one of the most successful CS programs in Africa, talks about his journey from the US Virgin Islands to getting his Ph.D. at MIT.
Nov 18, 2021 · Interview with: Jelani Nelson. Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. Creator of popular AddisCoder, USVICoder (High School CS programs in Ethiopia, and Virgin Islands).
Dec 28, 2020 · 34. 1.8K views 3 years ago. Established with the aim of increasing the participation of African American students in the mathematical sciences, the David Harold Blackwell Summer Research Institute...
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Oct 5, 2021 · Jelani Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Scientist at Google. His areas of interest include the theory of computation, as well as the design and analysis of algorithms, especially for massive datasets.
Jelani Nelson. Professor, Department of EECS. UC Berkeley. About me:I am an EECSfaculty member at UC Berkeley, where I am a member of the Theory Group. Current students: Ishaq Aden-Ali(co-advised with Peter Bartlett) Xin Lyu(co-advised with Avishay Tal) Mihir Singhal (co-advised with Venkatesan Guruswami) Hongxun Wu(co-advised with Avishay Tal)
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In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes Jelani Nelson, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Theory Group at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Scientist at Google.
In an interview with The New Yorker, he stated: “I’m extremely worried that the C.M.F. is implicitly advocating for certain groups of people to be pushed away from rigorous math courses into essentially a lower track, setting back progress in improving diversity in STEM.”
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