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] She is currently a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.[3] Her expertise is mainly on algorithms with a focus on data structures, algorithmic game theory, information retrieval, search algorithms and Web data mining.[4] She is married to Thomas Henzinger and has three children.[5]
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.[4] 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[4][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][16]
- 2027: Milner Award[5]
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
- ↑ Patton, Susannah (1 January 2003). "Henzinger Brings Algorithm Expertise to Google". CIO. https://www.cio.com/article/270180/internet-henzinger-brings-algorithm-expertise-to-google.html?utm=hybrid_search.
- ↑ "Monika Henzinger – Switzerland – Information". swissworld.org. http://www.swissworld.org/en/switzerland/resources/why_switzerland/monika_henzinger/. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ↑ [1], ISTA, retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Academy of Europe: Henzinger Monika". ae-info.org. http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Henzinger_Monika. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 science.ORF.at/Agenturen red (27 August 2026). "Monika Henzinger von Royal Society ausgezeichnet" (in de). ORF.at. https://science.orf.at/stories/3237071/.
- ↑ Monika Henzinger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Monika Henzinger Career". ista.ac.at. https://ist.ac.at/en/research/henzinger_monika-group/#Career. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ↑ "Academy of Europe: CV". ae-info.org. http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Henzinger_Monika/CV. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ↑ "Awards : European Science Foundation". esf.org. http://www.esf.org/coordinating-research/euryi/awards/2004.html/. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ↑ "Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI)". wpi.ac.at. http://www.wpi.ac.at/people_view.php?categorie=formerfellows. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ↑ "13 Österreicher in Academia Europaea aufgenommen", Der Standard, 30 October 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
- ↑ "Leopoldina: Detail" (in de). https://www.leopoldina.org/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/detail/monika-henzinger/.
- ↑ Cacm Staff (March 2017), "ACM Recognizes New Fellows", Communications of the ACM 60 (3): 23, doi:10.1145/3039921.
- ↑ science.ORF.at/Agenturen red (22 June 2021). "Wittgenstein-Preis für Informatikerin Henzinger" (in de). ORF.at. https://science.orf.at/stories/3207259.
- ↑ "Monika Henzinger" (in de). https://www.fwf.ac.at/entdecken/entdeckungen/monika-henzinger.
External links
- Official website
- Monika Henzinger publications indexed by Google Scholar
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