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University of Florida Computer and Information Science and Engineering Alper Üngör
Assistant Professor |
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| Office Location: | CSE 430 |
| Office Phone: | (352) 392-6835 |
| Departmental FAX: | (352) 392-1220 |
| Email: | ungor@cise.ufl.edu |
| Website: | http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ungor |
Interests
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. There are many application domains - computer graphics, computer aided design, computer vision, robotics, scientific computing, computational biology and geographic information systems and others- in which geometric algorithms play a fundamental role. During his Ph.D. studies at the University of Illinois, he has mainly focused on the geometric problems arising in finite element mesh generation. During his postdoctoral studies at Duke University he was involved in the BioGeometry project, an interdisciplinary effort to address fundamental computational problems in the representation of molecular structures and the simulation of biochemical processes important to life.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
- M.B.A., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1998
- M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1996
Current and Recent Courses
| Semester | Number | Title |
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| Fall 05 | CIS6930 | Approximation Algorithms |
| Spring 05 | CAP5515 | Computational Molecular Biology |
| Fall 04 | CIS6930 | Computational Geometry |
It is possible that changes in listings are pending. Contact the (CISE Student Services Center) at 352-392-1090 for the most up-to-date information.
Additional course information is available at:
- CISE Undergraduate Courses
- CISE Graduate Courses
- UF Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog Course Descriptions
Selected Publications
- S. Har-Peled and A. Üngör. "A time optimal Delaunay refinement algorithm in two dimensions",Proc. of ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, pp 228-236, Pisa, Italy, June 2005.
- D. Eppstein, J. Sullivan and A. Üngör. "Tiling space and slabs with acute tetrahedra", Journal of Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Vol 27/3, pp 237-255, 2004.
- Alper Üngör. "Off-centers: A new type of Steiner points for computing size-optimal guaranteed-quality Delaunay triangulations", Proc. of Latin American Theoretical INformatics, pp. 152-161, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 2004.
- H. Edelsbrunner and A. Üngör. "Relaxed scheduling in dynamic skin triangulation", revised papers from JCDCG'02, Tokyo, Japan, edited by J. Akiyama and M. Kano, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 2866, 135-151, Dec 2003.
- E. Akcali and A. Üngör. "Approximation Algorithms for Degree-constrained Bipartite Network Flow" Proceedings of Int. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Springer LNCS-series. 162-169, Antalya, Turkey, Nov 2003.
- D. Spielman, S.-H. Teng and A. Üngör. "Parallel Delaunay Refinement: Algorithms and Analyses", Proceedings of the 11th International Meshing Roundtable, 205-217, Oct 2002.