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 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.

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 Association for Theoretical Computer Science 2014: Elected to German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2017: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery 2021: Wittgenstein Award 2027: Milner Award

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