Monika Henzinger

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Monika Henzinger (2018)

Monika Henzinger (born April 17, 1966 as Monika Rauch in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ) is a German computer scientist . She headed the research department at Google , taught at Cornell University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and has been a professor at the University of Vienna since 2009 . She mainly deals with algorithms with a focus on information retrieval , search technology and web data mining .

Life

After graduating from the Elly-Heuss-Gymnasium Weiden , she switched to studying computer science at the University of Erlangen and later at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. She was funded by the German National Academic Foundation for her achievements . Henziger was in 1993 at Robert Tarjan at Princeton University on the topic Fully Dynamic Graph Algorithms and Their Data Structures (dt. Full dynamic graph algorithms and their data structures ) PhD . She then worked as an assistant professor at Cornell University . In 1999 Monika Henzinger became an employee of the research department of Google in California , from 2001 she was its director. In March 2005 she moved to Switzerland to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne . In the winter semester 2009/10 Monika Henzinger moved to the University of Vienna . In August 2018 she was appointed as a member of the Austrian Science Council for a three-year term from 2019 to 2021 .

Monika Henzinger is married to Thomas Henzinger and has three children. Until 2015 she was a member of the University Council of the Technical University of Munich .

Awards and honors

Publications

  • On near-uniform URL sampling , with Heydon Allan, Mitzenmacher Michael, Najork Marc in Computer Networks 1/33, pp. 295–308
  • Computing Vertex Connectivity: New Bounds from Old Techniques , with Rao Satish, Gabow Hal N. in J Algorithms 2/34, 2000, pp. 222-250
  • Hyperlink analysis for the Web , in Internet Computing, IEEE 1/5, 2001, pp. 45-50
  • Maintaining minimum spanning forests in dynamic graphs , with King Valerie in SIAM J Comput. 2/31, 2001, pp. 364-374
  • Challenges in web search engines , with Motwani Rajeev, Silverstein Craig in SIGIR Forum 2/36, 2002, pp. 11-22
  • Scheduling data transfers in a network and the set scheduling problem with Goe Ashish, Plotkin Serge, Tardos Eva in J Algorithms 2/48, 2002, pp. 314-332
  • Scheduling multicasts on unit-capacity trees and meshes with Leonardi Stefano in J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 3/66, 2003, pp. 567-661
  • An online throughput-competitive algorithm for multicast routing and admission control with Goel Ashish, Plotkin Serge in J Algorithms 1/55, 2005, pp. 1-20
  • Query-Free News Search with Chang, Bay-Wei, Milch Brian, Brin Sergey in World Wide Web 2/8, 2005, pp. 101-126
  • Search Technologies for the Internet in Science 5837/317, 2007, pp. 468-471

Web links

Commons : Monika Henzinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monika Henzinger leaves Google, marketingmann.de, April 25, 2004 ( Memento from June 27, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d e University of Vienna, New "women power" at the Faculty of Computer Science: Monika Henzinger and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma appointed to the University of Vienna , accessed on February 3, 2021
  3. ↑ a b WirtschaftsWoche e-business 12/2001: Google's head. In: Markus Göbel. May 28, 2001, accessed on February 3, 2021 (German).
  4. ↑ Monika H. Rauch Henzinger, Mathematics Genealogy Project.Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  5. ↑ a b Swissworld.org, Monika Henzinger ( memento of October 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 11, 2009
  6. ↑ Prof. Monika Henzinger appointed member of the Austrian Science Council . OTS announcement of August 24, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b Monika Henzinger receives ERC Advanced Grant. Retrieved February 3, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Google pioneer is a new honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dortmund . Media information from February 5, 2013, accessed on October 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Monika Henzinger (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ Computer scientist Monika Henzinger named Austria's Wittgenstein Prize winner 2021. In: fwf.ac.at. June 22, 2021, accessed June 22, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Henzinger, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauch, Monika (maiden name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Willows in the Upper Palatinate