Jelani Nelson

Jelani Osei Nelson
Born	June 28, 1984 (1984-06-28) (age 40) Los Angeles, California
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MEng, PhD)
Awards	ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award (2022) Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2017) Sloan Fellowship (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Algorithms Computational complexity theory
Institutions	Harvard University University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Sketching and Streaming High-Dimensional Vectors
Doctoral advisor	Erik Demaine and Piotr Indyk
Website	people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~minilek/

Jelani Osei Nelson (Amharic: ጄላኒ ኔልሰን; born June 28, 1984) is an American 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 the creator of AddisCoder, a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa.