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 University of the Saarland, a director of research at Google, and a full professor of computer science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She is currently a full professor of computer science at the University of Vienna, Austria.[5]
Awards
- 1995: NSF Career Award[7]
- 1997: Best Paper, ACM SOSP Conference
- 2001: Top 25 Women on the Web Award
- 2004: European Young Investigator award[8]
- 2009: Olga Taussky Pauli Fellowship[9]
- 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][10]
- 2014: One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science[11]
- 2014: Elected to German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[12]
Selected publications
- Henzinger, Monika; King, Valerie (1995), "Fully Dynamic Biconnectivity and Transitive Closure", 36th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'95), pp. 664–672, doi:10.1109/SFCS.1995.492668.
- 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 1-58113-015-5.
- Silverstein, Craig; Henzinger, Monika; Marais, Hannes; Moricz, Michael (1999), "Analysis of a Very Large Web Search Engine Query Log", ACM SIGIR Forum, pp. 6–12, doi:10.1145/331403.331405.
References
- ↑ "Google's Research Maven - Forbes". forbes.com. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ "Henzinger Brings Algorithm Expertise to Google - CIO.com". cio.com. Retrieved 2014-06-14. horizontal tab character in
|title=at position 49 (help) - ↑ "Monika Henzinger - Switzerland - Information". swissworld.org. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ Faculty profile, Univ. of Vienna, retrieved 2015-01-25.
- 1 2 3 "Academy of Europe: Henzinger Monika". ae-info.org. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ Monika Henzinger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Academy of Europe: CV". ae-info.org. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ "Awards : European Science Foundation". esf.org. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ "Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI)". wpi.ac.at. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
- ↑ "13 Österreicher in Academia Europaea aufgenommen", Der Standard, October 30, 2013
- ↑ "EATCS names 2014 fellows", Milestones: Computer Science Awards, Appointments, Communications of the ACM, 58 (1): 24, January 2015, doi:10.1145/2686734
- ↑ Member profile, Leopoldina, retrieved 2015-01-24.