Jelani Nelson

2.4k total citations
38 papers, 854 citations indexed

About

Jelani Nelson is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jelani Nelson has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 854 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 18 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 14 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Jelani Nelson's work include Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (14 papers), Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs (12 papers) and Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques (9 papers). Jelani Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (14 papers), Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs (12 papers) and Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques (9 papers). Jelani Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Jelani Nelson's co-authors include Daniel M. Kane, David P. Woodruff, Huy L. Nguyên, Uri Stemmer, Mark Bun, Krzysztof Onak, Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Jeremy T. Fineman, Michael A. Bender and Bradley C. Kuszmaul and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the ACM, Linear Algebra and its Applications and Journal of Approximation Theory.

In The Last Decade

Jelani Nelson

36 papers receiving 796 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jelani Nelson United States 14 540 266 237 236 137 38 854
Daniel M. Kane United States 15 460 0.9× 145 0.5× 125 0.5× 271 1.1× 101 0.7× 89 841
Ravindran Kannan United States 14 330 0.6× 93 0.3× 119 0.5× 336 1.4× 131 1.0× 28 848
Yin Tat Lee United States 18 338 0.6× 211 0.8× 99 0.4× 373 1.6× 85 0.6× 46 816
Nicholas J. A. Harvey United States 18 302 0.6× 1.0k 3.9× 72 0.3× 299 1.3× 88 0.6× 52 1.5k
S. Vempala United States 10 531 1.0× 63 0.2× 125 0.5× 172 0.7× 224 1.6× 15 865
Konstantin Makarychev United States 18 349 0.6× 427 1.6× 53 0.2× 553 2.3× 106 0.8× 68 1.2k
Pedro M. Crespo Spain 17 250 0.5× 416 1.6× 96 0.4× 140 0.6× 90 0.7× 101 926
Virginia Vassilevska Williams United States 18 472 0.9× 403 1.5× 36 0.2× 853 3.6× 152 1.1× 71 1.3k
Raghu Meka United States 17 332 0.6× 79 0.3× 270 1.1× 305 1.3× 148 1.1× 48 792
Damien Stehlé France 13 697 1.3× 205 0.8× 37 0.2× 386 1.6× 154 1.1× 33 1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jelani Nelson

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All Works

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Cohen, Edith, Jelani Nelson, Tamás Sarlós, & Uri Stemmer. (2023). Tricking the Hashing Trick: A Tight Lower Bound on the Robustness of CountSketch to Adaptive Inputs. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(6). 7235–7243. 3 indexed citations
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Cohen, Edith, Xin Lyu, Jelani Nelson, Tamás Sarlós, & Uri Stemmer. (2023). Optimal Differentially Private Learning of Thresholds and Quasi-Concave Optimization. 472–482. 2 indexed citations
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Nelson, Jelani, et al.. (2022). Terminal Embeddings in Sublinear Time. 1209–1216. 4 indexed citations
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Nelson, Jelani. (2020). Dimensionality Reduction in Euclidean Space. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 67(10). 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Bun, Mark, Jelani Nelson, & Uri Stemmer. (2018). Heavy Hitters and the Structure of Local Privacy. 435–447. 51 indexed citations
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Nelson, Jelani. (2016). Chaining introduction with some computer science applications. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 3(120). 1 indexed citations
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Larsen, Kasper Green & Jelani Nelson. (2016). The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma Is Optimal for Linear Dimensionality Reduction. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 55. 11. 5 indexed citations
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Cohen, Michael B., Jelani Nelson, & David P. Woodruff. (2016). Optimal Approximate Matrix Product in Terms of Stable Rank. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 14 indexed citations
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Ajtai, Miklós, Vitaly Feldman, Avinatan Hassidim, & Jelani Nelson. (2015). Sorting and Selection with Imprecise Comparisons. ACM Transactions on Algorithms. 12(2). 1–19. 10 indexed citations
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Bourgain, Jean, Sjoerd Dirksen, & Jelani Nelson. (2015). Toward a Unified Theory of Sparse Dimensionality Reduction in Euclidean Space. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 499–508. 11 indexed citations
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Nelson, Jelani, et al.. (2014). Spectral Sparsification: The Barrier Method and its Applications.
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Nelson, Jelani, Huy L. Nguyên, & David P. Woodruff. (2013). On deterministic sketching and streaming for sparse recovery and norm estimation. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 441. 152–167. 6 indexed citations
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Nelson, Jelani, et al.. (2013). Sparsity lower bounds for dimensionality reducing maps. 101–110. 16 indexed citations
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Kane, Daniel M. & Jelani Nelson. (2012). Sparser Johnson-Lindenstrauss transforms. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 1195–1206. 11 indexed citations
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Nelson, Jelani. (2012). Sketching and streaming algorithms for processing massive data. XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students. 19(1). 14–19. 5 indexed citations
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Nelson, Jelani & Vladimir Temlyakov. (2011). On the size of incoherent systems. Journal of Approximation Theory. 163(9). 1238–1245. 13 indexed citations
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Kane, Daniel M. & Jelani Nelson. (2010). A Derandomized Sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform. 17. 98. 2 indexed citations
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Nelson, Jelani & David P. Woodruff. (2010). Fast Manhattan sketches in data streams. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 99–110. 13 indexed citations
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Kane, Daniel M., Jelani Nelson, & David P. Woodruff. (2010). On the Exact Space Complexity of Sketching and Streaming Small Norms. 1161–1178. 15 indexed citations
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Nelson, Jelani. (2007). A Note on Set Cover Inapproximability Independent of Universe Size. Electronic colloquium on computational complexity. 14(1). 72–9. 7 indexed citations

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