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Sep 8, 2022 · Jelani Nelson, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is the son of an Ethiopian mother and an African American father. For the past ...
Feb 23, 2017 · Jelani Nelson, assistant professor of Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been named a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.. Nelson is among 126 early-career scholars who “represent the most promising scientific researchers working today,” according to the Sloan Foundation.
May 17, 2023 · CS Professor Jelani Nelson has won the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics. The biannual award is given to those who have made a “significant contribution through the use of computing technology.” Nelson is cited “for founding and developing AddisCoder, a nonprofit organization which teaches programming to underserved students ...
AddisCoder started in 2011 when Jelani Nelson was a graduate student at MIT. While visiting relatives in the capital city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Nelson decided to offer a free 4-week course on algorithms and coding for high school students.
Apr 12, 2023 · CS Professor Jelani Nelson has won the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM-SIGACT) Distinguished Service Award. Nelson was cited “for outstanding contributions to broadening participation in computer science, and in theoretical computer science in particular.” Awarded annually, the SIGACT Distinguished Service Award is given ...
Apr 17, 2015 · Jelani Nelson is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. (Photo by Jim Harrison) Harvard Magazine. By Jonathan Shaw. JELANI NELSON LIGHTS UP when he talks about algorithms. The soft-spoken assistant professor of computer science is a rising star in a field made vital as data proliferate exponentially faster than the ...
Since computers cannot store unlimited amounts of data, it is important to be able to quickly extract patterns in that data without having to remember it in real time. CS Prof. Jelani Nelson, who is profiled in a Q&A session for Quanta magazine, has been expanding the theoretical possibilities for low-memory streaming algorithms using a […]
