Katy Borner

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Katy Börner (born October 1967 in Leipzig ) is a German-American engineer, computer scientist and university lecturer. In 2019 she received the first Ada Lovelace Award.

life and work

After graduating from the Leipzig Telecommunications Factory, Börner studied electrical engineering at the University of Leipzig , where he received his master's degree in 1991. In 1997 she did her doctorate in computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern . After a year as a postdoc at Bielefeld University , she moved to the Faculty of Computer Science at Indiana University in 1998 . In 2013 she was appointed Victor Yngve Professor at the School of Library and Information Science (now the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering).

From 2011 to 2013 she worked as a producer with the visual artist Ying-Fang Shen on the short film Humanexus . This won numerous awards worldwide, including third prize at the Aviff Cannes art film festival, best original screenplay (animation) at the unofficial Google+ Film Festival 2014, best short animation at Albany FilmFest 2014 and the Award of Excellence at the 2014 Canada International Film Festival and the Documentary Shorts Award and the Best Director Award at the Macon Film Festival 2014.

In 2015, she was appointed to the US Department of Commerce's data advisory board for two years .

From 2017 to 2019 she was a Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University of Dresden.

In 2018 she was selected as an ACM Fellow for "Contributing to Methods and Tools That Allow Users to Turn Data into Actionable Insights".

In 2019, she received the first Ada Lovelace Award from the city of Bloomington, Indiana.

She is visiting professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands and visiting professor and Mercator Fellow at the Institute for Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen . She is the founding director of Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, an organization dedicated to the study, development and promotion of tools and services for analyzing and visualizing large networks, particularly in the fields of biomedicine, social and behavior, science, physics and technology. She is known for her atlas books. The 2011 Atlas of Science was awarded the Best Information Science Book Award by the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS & T). In addition to the Atlas series, she has written more than 200 articles for specialist journals and academic texts and edited several publications.

Awards (selection)

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2012.
  • Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know (MIT) is the winner for The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS & T) best Information Science book published in 2010.
  • Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2003.
  • Pervasive Technology Laboratories Fellowship, Indiana University, Sept. 2003 – Aug. 2004.
  • SBC Fellow, Round 4, 2003/2004.
  • NSF CAREER Award, Sept. 2003 – Aug. 2008.
  • Trustees Teaching Award, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, 2003.
  • Ph.D. Fellowship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes eV, Germany, 1992–1995.
  • Former scholarship holder Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV, Germany.

Patents

  • Method for the selective determination of the spectral reflectance function by means of an optoelectronic color measuring head. DE 4120749 A1. Date of filing: June 24, 1991. Date of publication of application: February 20, 1992.
  • Method for the metrological detection of the point-wise increase in remission, reflection and transmission spectra using only one LED. DE 4126678 A1. Date of filing: August 13, 1991. Date of publication of application: March 13, 1992.

Publications (selection)

  • K. Borner; D. Polley: Visual Insights: A Practical Guide to Making Sense of Data. The MIT Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0262526197 .
  • K. Borner; Y. thing; M. Conlon; J. Corson-Rikert: VIVO: A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012, ISBN 978-1608459933 .
  • A. Scharnhorst; K. Borner; P. van den Besselaar: Models of Science Dynamics: Encounters Between Complexity Theory and Information Sciences. Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3642230677 .
  • Contributor to the Panel on Modernizing the Infrastructure of the National Foundation Federal Funds Survey; National Research Council of the National Academies. Data on Federal Research and Development Investment: A Pathway to Modernization. The National Academies Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-309-14523-7 .
  • K. Borner; C. Chen: Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries. Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-3540002475 .

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SURNAME Borner, Katy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American engineer, computer scientist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig