Alperen Ergür, Ph.D.

Kay and Steve Robbins Faculty Teaching Fellowship Award in Computer Science

Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science

Alperen Ergür’s research interests include real algebraic geometry, convex geometry, optimization, theory of computation, high dimensional probability, randomized numerical algorithms, and reinforcement learning.

Ergür’s work has been supported by notable organizations like the National Science Foundation (NSF) Algorithmic Foundations program. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings such as Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Mathematische Annalen, Discrete & Computational Geometry, Random Structures & Algorithms, SIAM Journal on Optimization, and SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics. He also serves as a reviewer for several prestigious journals and conferences, and is a panelist for the NSF. 

Ergür earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining UTSA in 2020, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, an Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin, and a postdoctoral scholar at NC State University.