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German computer scientist

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 Institute of Science and Technology Austria. 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.

Career

She completed her PhD in 1993 from Princeton University under the supervision of Robert Tarjan. 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. Since 2023 she is a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).

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 Association for Theoretical Computer Science
2014: Elected to German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2017: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
2021: Wittgenstein Award

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), "Analysis 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.

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