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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katie Bouman has received more than 848,756 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Katie Bouman is the 234th most popular computer scientist (down from 208th in 2019), the 17,086th most popular biography from United States (down from 15,411th in 2019) and the 120th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Katie Bouman ranks 234 out of 245. Before her are Mihalis Yannakakis, Lex Fridman, Danny Hillis, Jon Lech Johansen, Theodore Ts'o, and David Heinemeier Hansson. After her are Larry Ewing, Denny Vrandečić, David Karp, John Resig, Dries Buytaert, and Rosalind Picard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Katie Bouman ranks 601. Before her are Rob Gronkowski, Hugh Mitchell, Peter Gojowczyk, Sayumi Michishige, Alan Kardec, and Lucinda Brand. After her are Raphael Holzdeppe, Ibrahima Baldé, Sho Sasaki, Bastian Oczipka, Mariana Duque Mariño, and Hrvoje Milić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Katie Bouman ranks 17,086 out of 20,380. Before her are Laura Bell Bundy (1981), Zak Orth (1970), Zack Greinke (1983), Chanel Iman (1990), Matt Bennett (1991), and Joel Benjamin (1964). After her are Reid Scott (1977), Gia Mantegna (1990), Patrick Galbraith (1967), Michael DeLuise (1969), Rashard Lewis (1979), and Charlotte Ross (1968).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Katie Bouman ranks 120. Before her are Phil Katz (1962), Bram Cohen (1975), Steve Wilhite (1948), Shawn Fanning (1980), Danny Hillis (1956), and Theodore Ts'o (1968). After her are David Karp (1986), John Resig (1984), Rosalind Picard (1962), Virgil Griffith (1983), Ian Goodfellow (1987), and Jamie Zawinski (1968).

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