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Katie Bouman

1989 - Today

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Katherine Louise Bouman (; born 1989) is an American engineer and computer scientist working in the field of computer imagery. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katie Bouman has received more than 819,035 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Katie Bouman is the 208th most popular computer scientist (down from 193rd in 2019), the 15,453rd most popular biography from United States (down from 13,857th in 2019) and the 109th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 820k

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  • 30.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Katie Bouman ranks 208 out of 201. Before her are Bram Moolenaar, Bram Cohen, Demis Hassabis, Ninoslav Marina, Danny Hillis, and Larry Ewing. After her are John Resig, David Heinemeier Hansson, Maria Klawe, David Karp, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Manindra Agrawal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Katie Bouman ranks 564. Before her are Jesse James, Jeffery Taylor, Vladimir Lučić, Syam Ben Youssef, May'n, and Emil Salomonsson. After her are Mamadou Bagayoko, Emily Meade, Hasan Ali Kaldırım, Tyreke Evans, Tim Declercq, and Kelly Marie Tran.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Katie Bouman ranks 15,453 out of 18,182. Before her are Jalen Rose (1973), Angela Little (1972), Ricky Pierce (1959), Matt Bennett (1991), Joe Donnelly (1955), and Erick Rowan (1981). After her are Dave Freudenthal (1950), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (1966), John Resig (1984), Angelo Taylor (1978), Alex Tyus (1988), and LeToya Luckett (1981).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Katie Bouman ranks 109. Before her are Shawn Fanning (1980), John Ousterhout (1954), Brian Acton (1972), Nancy Lynch (1948), Bram Cohen (1975), and Danny Hillis (1956). After her are John Resig (1984), David Karp (1986), Blake Ross (1985), and Virgil Griffith (1983).

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