[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.
[3] Steurer's work focuses on optimization using the sum of squares technique, giving an invited talk on the topic at the 2018 ICM, together with Prasad Raghavendra.
[4] Together with Prasad Raghavendra, he developed the small set expansion hypothesis, for which they won the Michael and Shiela Held Prize.
[6] Together with Irit Dinur, he introduced a new and simple approach to parallel repetition theorems.