About me: I am an EECS faculty member at UC Berkeley, where I am a member of the Theory Group.

Current students: Haofeng (Fred) Zhang.

Current postdocs: Kyle Luh, Paris Syminelakis

Former students:

• Jarosław Błasiok. Junior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows.
• Vasileios Nakos. Postdoc, Saarland University.
• Zhengyu Wang. Quantitative Researcher, Tower Research Capital.

Former postdocs:

• Rasmus Kyng. Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich.
• Huacheng Yu (with Madhu Sudan). Researcher, Princeton University.
• Jakub Pachocki. Researcher, OpenAI.
• Yi Li. Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University.

Other activities: AddisCoder, 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 294-165 (UC Berkeley). Sketching Algorithms. Fall’20.
• CS 170 (UC Berkeley). Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems. Spring’20.
• 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.
• USVICoder. Algorithms and Programming for High Schoolers in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. January’15.

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