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Katie Bouman
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American engineer and computer scientist
Key facts
- Born
- Katherine Louise Bouman , 1989 (age 36 – 37)
- Alma mater
- University of Michigan ( BS ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( SM , PhD )
- Known for
- CHIRP algorithm
- Fields
- Computer vision machine learning
- Institutions
- California Institute of Technology Harvard University
- Thesis
- Extreme Imaging via Physical Model Inversion: Seeing Around Corners and Imaging Black Holes (2017)
- Doctoral advisor
- William T. Freeman
- Website
- www .cms .caltech .edu /people /klbouman
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louise
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- West Lafayette
- Occupation
- electrical engineer
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Award
- BBC 100 Women
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- computer vision
- Official website
- users.cms.caltech.edu/~klbouman
- Image
- Katie Bouman answers questions about the Event Horizon Telescope project.jpg
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- Commons category
- Katie Bouman
- date of birth
- 1989-05-09
- IPA transcription
- /ˈbaʊmən/
- name in native language
- Katherine Bouman
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- BBC 100 Women Edit-a-thon
- professorship
- docent
- birth name
- Katherine Bouman
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Encyclopedic overview
Katherine Louise Bouman (/ˈbaʊmən/; born 1989) is an American engineer and computer scientist working in the field of computational imaging. She led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes, known as Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP), and was a member of the Event Horizon Telescope team that captured the first image of a black hole.
The California Institute of Technology, which hired Bouman as an assistant professor in June 2019, awarded her a named professorship in 2020. In 2021, asteroid 291387 Katiebouman was named after her. In 2024, she became an associate professor.
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