Katie Bouman
Katie Bouman | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Thesis | Extreme imaging via physical model inversion : seeing around corners and imaging black holes (2017) |
Katherine (Katie) Louise Bouman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. She researches computational methods for imaging, and was responsible for the first visualisation of a black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope.
Early life and education
Bouman is from Indiana. She first heard about the Event Horizon Telescope telescope as a student whist a high school student in West Lafayette, Indiana.[1] She studied electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and graduated cum laude.[2] She earned a master's degree in electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also completed her doctorate. Bouman was a member of the MIT Haystack Observatory.[3] She was supported by an National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Her master's dissertation, Estimating Material Properties of Fabric through the observation of Motion, was awarded the Ernst Guillemin Award for best Masters Thesis.[4] Bouman joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow on the Event Horizon Telescope Imaging team.[5][6][7] In 2017 Bouman delivered a TED Talk, How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole.[8][9]
Research and career
Bouman joined the California Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 2019. She works on new systems for computational imaging.[10][11] In April 2019 Bouman was responsible for the first images of a black hole, providing computational support to learn about general relativity in the strong-field regime.[3][10][12] Bouman theorised that black holes leave a background shadow of hot gas.[6]
Bouman has written for Astronomy Now.[13]
References
- ^ Abraham, Zennie (2019-04-10). "About Katie Bouman Creator Of First Black Hole Image From Event Horizon Telescope". Oakland News Now Today | SF Bay Area Blog. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ "Katie Bouman aka Katherine L. Bouman". people.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ a b "Working together as a "virtual telescope," observatories around the world produce first direct images of a black hole". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ "EECS Celebrates - Fall 2014 Awards | MIT EECS". www.eecs.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ "Katie Bouman". bhi.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ a b "Professor Katie Bouman (Caltech): " Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope"". Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ "Project bids to make black hole movies". BBC News. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ Bouman, Katie. "Katie Bouman | Speaker | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ "Katie Bouman". TEDxBeaconStreet. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ a b "Caltech Computing + Mathematical Sciences | Katherine L. Bouman". cms.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ "Imaging the Invisible". www.ee.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- ^ Science Editor, Tom Whipple (2019-04-10). "First image of black hole revealed". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help); no-break space character in|last=at position 8 (help) - ^ Now, Astronomy. "Katie Bouman – Astronomy Now". Retrieved 2019-04-10.
