About me: I am a member of the Theory Group in the UC Berkeley EECS department. I also currently serve as EECS Department Chair.

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)

Current postdoc:

• Ce Jin (Miller Fellow)

Former students:

• Jarosław Błasiok. Assistant Professor, Bocconi University.
• Vasileios Nakos. Assistant Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• Zhengyu Wang. Quantitative Researcher, Citadel Securities.
• Haofeng (Fred) Zhang. Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Former postdocs:

• Samson Zhou. Assistant Professor, Texas A&M.
• Shay Golan. Postdoc, Haifa University and Reichman University.
• Jan van den Brand. Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech.
• Paris Syminelakis. Research Scientist, Cruise.
• Kyle Luh. Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder.
• Rasmus Kyng. Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich.
• Huacheng Yu (co-hosted by Madhu Sudan). Assistant Professor, Princeton University.
• Jakub Pachocki. Chief Scientist, OpenAI.
• Yi Li. Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University.

Other activities: AddisCoder, JamCoders, USVICoder, workshop on chaining , Simons program on probability, geometry, and computation in high dimensions

Notes on sketching and streaming algorithms from the TUM Summer School on Mathematical Methods for High-Dimensional Data Analysis.

Notes on dimensionality reduction from the MADALGO Summer School on Streaming Algorithms.

See also my curriculum vitae.

• CS 270 (UC Berkeley). Combinatorial Algorithms and Data Structures. Spring’23.
• CS 294-165 (UC Berkeley). Sketching Algorithms. Fall’20.
• CS 170 (UC Berkeley). Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems. Spring’20, Fall’21, Fall’22.
• CS 125 (Harvard). Algorithms & Complexity. Fall’16.
• CS 224 (Harvard). Advanced Algorithms. Fall’14, Spring’17.
• CS 124 (Harvard). Data Structures and Algorithms. Spring’14 ‘15 ‘18 ‘19.
• CS 226 (Harvard). Sketching Algorithms for Big Data. Fall’13 ‘15 ‘17.
• AddisCoder. Algorithms and Programming for High Schoolers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Summer’11 ‘16 ‘18 ‘19.
• JamCoders. Algorithms and Programming for High Schoolers in Kingston, Jamaica. Summer’22.
• USVICoder. Algorithms and Programming for High Schoolers in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. January’15.

• minilek@berkeley.edu
• 633 Soda Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1776