Katie Bouman
Katie Bouman | |
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Bouman speaking about the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019 | |
| Born | Katherine Louise Bouman 1989 (age 35–36) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | CHIRP algorithm |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Extreme Imaging via Physical Model Inversion: Seeing Around Corners and Imaging Black Holes (2017) |
| Doctoral advisor | William T. Freeman |
| Website | www |
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.