Primary Research Area
Discrete and Computational Geometry
Research Areas
Discrete and Computational Geometry, Complexity, Algorithmic Foundations, Open source Mathematical Software, Foundations of Machine Learning, Modeling in Physics, Engineering and Game Theory
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Research Interests
Geometry, Complexity, Discrete modeling and algorithms, Open source mathematical software, Application of the above in Natural and Social Sciences and Engineering
Awards & Distinctions
- Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award: 2025-27(flex)
- Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) fellow: Spring 2025
- Fields Institute Visiting Fellow: Summer 2023 and Spring 2021
- UF Term Professorship 2018-21
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellow 1990-92
Alper Üngör’s research is on the junction of the two main branches of computer science, theoretical computer science and scientific computing. Specifically, his research interests are in computational geometry, with special emphasis in mesh generation. His main goal is to understand the mathematical (mostly geometrical) structure of engineering problems and develop provably good algorithms to solve them.…