Focus Period Lund 2026
Assistant Professor
Umeå University (Sweden)
Alp Yurtsever is a WASP Assistant Professor of Optimization and Machine Learning at the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University, Sweden. His research develops theory and algorithms for challenging optimization problems, motivated by applications in resource allocation, networked decision-making, and machine learning. His interests include conic programming, large-scale semidefinite programming, structured nonconvex and bilevel optimization, quantum-assisted optimization, distributed learning, operator splitting, and adaptive methods. Prior to joining Umeå University, he received his PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences (EDIC) from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where his dissertation was awarded a Thesis Distinction, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).