Biography:Monika Henzinger
Monika Henzinger (born as Monika Rauch, 17 April 1966 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz) is a German computer scientist, and is a former director of research at Google.[1][2][3] She is currently a professor at the University of Vienna.[4] Her expertise is mainly on algorithms with a focus on data structures, algorithmic game theory, information retrieval, search algorithms and Web data mining.[5] She is married to Thomas Henzinger and has three children.
Career
She completed her PhD in 1993 from Princeton University under the supervision of Robert Tarjan.[6] She then became an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University, a research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation, an associate professor at the Saarland University, a director of research at Google, a full professor of computer science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a full professor of computer science at the University of Vienna, Austria.[5] Since 2023 she is a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).[7]
Awards
- 1995: NSF Career Award[8]
- 1997: Best Paper, ACM SOSP Conference
- 2001: Top 25 Women on the Web Award
- 2004: European Young Investigator award[9]
- 2009: Olga Taussky Pauli Fellowship[10]
- 2010: Member of the "Junge Kurie" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2013: Honorary Doctorate of the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
- 2013: ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council
- 2013: Elected to Academia Europaea[5][11]
- 2014: One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science[12]
- 2014: Elected to German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[13]
- 2017: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[14]
- 2021: Wittgenstein Award[15]
Selected publications
- "Fully Dynamic Biconnectivity and Transitive Closure", 36th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'95), 1995, pp. 664–672, doi:10.1109/SFCS.1995.492668, ISBN 978-0-8186-7183-8, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/99332/files/HenzingerHK95.pdf.
- Bharat, Krishna; Henzinger, Monika R. (1998), "Improved Algorithms for Topic Distillation in a Hyperlinked Environment", Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '98), New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 104–111, doi:10.1145/290941.290972, ISBN 978-1-58113-015-7.
- Silverstein, Craig; Henzinger, Monika; Marais, Hannes; Moricz, Michael (1999), "Analysis of a Very Large Web Search Engine Query Log", ACM SIGIR Forum, 33, pp. 6–12, doi:10.1145/331403.331405, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/99356/files/SilversteinHMM99.pdf.
References
- ↑ "Google's Research Maven – Forbes". forbes.com. https://www.forbes.com/2001/10/08/henzinger.html. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ "Henzinger Brings Algorithm Expertise to Google". cio.com. January 2003. http://www.cio.com/article/31586/Henzinger_Brings_Algorithm_Expertise_to_Google. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ "Monika Henzinger – Switzerland – Information". swissworld.org. http://www.swissworld.org/en/switzerland/resources/why_switzerland/monika_henzinger/. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ Faculty profile, Univ. of Vienna, retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Academy of Europe: Henzinger Monika". ae-info.org. http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Henzinger_Monika. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ Monika Henzinger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Monika Henzinger Career". ista.ac.at. https://ist.ac.at/en/research/henzinger_monika-group/#Career. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
- ↑ "Academy of Europe: CV". ae-info.org. http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Henzinger_Monika/CV. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ "Awards : European Science Foundation". esf.org. http://www.esf.org/coordinating-research/euryi/awards/2004.html/. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ "Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI)". wpi.ac.at. http://www.wpi.ac.at/people_view.php?categorie=formerfellows. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ "13 Österreicher in Academia Europaea aufgenommen", Der Standard, October 30, 2013, http://derstandard.at/1381370350272/13-Oesterreicher-in-Academia-Europaea-aufgenommen
- ↑ Klarreich, Erica (January 2015), "EATCS names 2014 fellows", Communications of the ACM 58 (1): 24, doi:10.1145/2686734
- ↑ Member profile, Leopoldina, retrieved 2015-01-24.
- ↑ Cacm Staff (March 2017), "ACM Recognizes New Fellows", Communications of the ACM 60 (3): 23, doi:10.1145/3039921.
- ↑ "Prof. Dr. Monika Henzinger receives prestigious Wittgenstein Prize". 22 June 2021. https://informatik.univie.ac.at/en/news-events/article/news/prof-dr-monika-henzinger-erhaelt-renommierten-wittgenstein-preis/.
External links
- Monika Henzinger publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Home page
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