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

1. "Google's Research Maven - Forbes". forbes.com. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
2. "Henzinger Brings Algorithm Expertise to Google - CIO.com". cio.com. Retrieved 2014-06-14. horizontal tab character in |title= at position 49 (help)
3. "Monika Henzinger - Switzerland - Information". swissworld.org. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
4. Faculty profile, Univ. of Vienna, retrieved 2015-01-25.
5. "Academy of Europe: Henzinger Monika". ae-info.org. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
6. Monika Henzinger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
7. "Academy of Europe: CV". ae-info.org. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
8. "Awards : European Science Foundation". esf.org. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
9. "Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI)". wpi.ac.at. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
10. "13 Österreicher in Academia Europaea aufgenommen", Der Standard, October 30, 2013
11. "EATCS names 2014 fellows", Milestones: Computer Science Awards, Appointments, Communications of the ACM, 58 (1): 24, January 2015, doi:10.1145/2686734
12. Member profile, Leopoldina, retrieved 2015-01-24.

External links

• Google scholar profile
• Home page