Ayşe Funda Ergün is a Turkish and American theoretical computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Indiana University Bloomington, and the chair of ACM SIGACT, the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory. Her research interests include streaming algorithms, sublinear algorithms, and applications of computational biology to cancer.
Ergun has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Bilkent University. She completed a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1998, with the dissertation General Methods for Extending the Scope of Self-Testing and Result-Checking supervised by Ronitt Rubinfeld. She joined Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada as an assistant professor in 2004, and remained there as an associate and full professor until 2013, when she moved to her present position at Indiana University. She was also a program director at the National Science Foundation from 2019 to 2023.
She was elected as chair of ACM SIGACT for the 2024–2027 term.
References
- "Funda Ergun", Profiles, Indiana University Bloomington Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, retrieved 2024-10-28
- Funda Ergun at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Candidate biographies and statements for 2024 ACM SIGACT election (PDF), Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2024-10-28
- "2024 ACM SIGACT Election Results", ACM SIG Elections, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2024-10-28
External links
- Home page
- Funda Ergun publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- Turkish computer scientists
- Turkish women computer scientists
- American computer scientists
- American women computer scientists
- Theoretical computer scientists
- Bilkent University alumni
- Cornell University alumni
- Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
- Indiana University Bloomington faculty
- United States National Science Foundation officials