David Steurer
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AlmamaterPrinceton University
Awards
- Michael and Shiela Held Prize (2018)[1]
- Amnon Pazy Memorial Award (2015)
- NSF CAREER Award (2014)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2014)
- ACM Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (2011)
FieldsComputer science
David Steurer | |
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| Born | February 16, 1984 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich |
| Thesis | On the complexity of unique games and graph expansion (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sanjeev Arora |
| Website | www |
David Steurer is a German theoretical computer scientist, working in approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, sum of squares, and high-dimensional statistics. He is an associate professor of computer science at ETH Zurich.[2]
David Steurer studied for bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Saarland (2003–2006), and went on to study at Princeton University, where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Sanjeev Arora in 2010. He then spent two years as a postdoc at Microsoft Research New England, before joining Cornell University. In 2017 he moved to ETH Zurich, where he became an associate professor in 2020.[3]
