About Me

I am currently a PhD Student in the Theory and Algorithms group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am broadly interested in pseudorandomness and its application to computational complexity, as well as its application to extremal combinatorics and number theory.

Publications

Strong Bounds for 3-Progressions
Zander Kelley, Raghu Meka
arXiv preprint, 2023
arXiv
Random restrictions and PRGs for PTFs in Gaussian Space
Zander Kelley, Raghu Meka
CCC, 2022
arXiv | ECCC | conference proceedings
An improved derandomization of the switching lemma
Zander Kelley
STOC, 2021
ECCC | conference proceedings
Pseudorandom generators for read-once branching programs, in any order
Michael Forbes, Zander Kelley
FOCS, 2018
arXiv | ECCC | conference proceedings

Undergraduate Work

Estimating the number of roots of trinomials over finite fields
Zander Kelley, Sean W. Owen
Journal of Symbolic Computation, 2017
arXiv | journal
Roots of sparse polynomials over a finite field
Zander Kelley
LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics, 2016
arXiv | journal