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Fall 2023 Speaker Series: High School Data Science Controversy: California and Beyond (Zoom)
October 20, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday, October 20, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Dr. Jelani Nelson, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Title: High School Data Science Controversy: California and Beyond
Dr. Jelani Nelson
Bio
Dr. Jelani Nelson is a professor of Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Nelson is interested in big data and the development of efficient algorithms.
Nelson is the creator of AddisCoder, a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa. After his doctorate, Nelson worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, then Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.[3] He specializes in sketching and streaming algorithms.
Learn more about Dr. Nelson by visiting his UC Berkeley page, as well as his Twitter page.
Registration for Dr. Nelson’s talk is now open! Click the link here to register!
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