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. Since 2023 she is a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).

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