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Monika Henzinger

German computer scientist Prof.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. She is currently a professor at the University of Vienna. Her expertise is mainly on algorithms with a focus on data structures, algorithmic game theory, information retrieval, search algorithms and Web data mining. She is married to Thomas Henzinger and has three children.

Contents

  • 1 Career
  • 2 Awards
  • 3 Selected publications
  • 4 References
  • 5 External links

Career

She completed her PhD in 1993 from Princeton University under the supervision of Robert Tarjan. She then became an *istant professor of computer science at Cornell University, a research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation, an *ociate professor at the Saarland University, 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.

Awards

  • 1995: NSF Career Award
  • 1997: Best Paper, ACM SOSP Conference
  • 2001: Top 25 Women on the Web Award
  • 2004: European Young Investigator award
  • 2009: Olga Taussky Pauli Fellowship
  • 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
  • 2014: One of ten inaugural fellows of the European *ociation for Theoretical Computer Science
  • 2014: Elected to German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 2017: Fellow of the *ociation for Computing Machinery
  • 2021: Wittgenstein Award

Selected publications

  • Henzinger, Monika; King, Valerie (1995), "Fully Dynamic Biconnectivity and Transitive Closure", 36th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'95) (PDF), pp.:664–672, doi:10.1109/SFCS.1995.492668, ISBN:978-0-8186-7183-8, S2CID:206559885.
  • 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, CiteSeerX:10.1.1.4.6938, doi:10.1145/290941.290972, ISBN:978-1-58113-015-7, S2CID:1146457.
  • Silverstein, Craig; Henzinger, Monika; Marais, Hannes; Moricz, Michael (1999), "*ysis of a Very Large Web Search Engine Query Log", ACM SIGIR Forum (PDF), vol.:33, pp.:6–12, doi:10.1145/331403.331405, S2CID:10184913.

References

    External links

    • Monika Henzinger publications indexed by Google Scholar
    • Home page