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Henzinger_Monika Group

Algorithms

To save resources in computing the goal is usually to minimize computing time and storage space. The research field of efficient algorithms and data structures wants to understand how to save these resources, both by designing better algorithms and by proving bounds on the limits of possible savings. One particular area of focus in our research on efficient algorithms are dynamic settings where the input to the program is updated repeatedly and after each update the new solution needs to be found much faster than restarting the computation on the new input.

A second area of our research is designing algorithms that protect the privacy of the input data. This can be achieved by adding suitable noise to the input and the goal of the research is to minimize the amount of noise as it reduces the information that can be gained from the output and can also slow down the algorithm. The amount of noise depends on what information needs to be computed from the data and what kind of privacy guarantees are desired. Again, our focus is on the dynamic setting where the input data changes continuously.

A third area of our research is to turn the theoretically best algorithms into simple, practical algorithms that we implement and evaluate empirically. As before we are especially interested in algorithms for dynamically changing inputs.




Team


Current Projects

Efficient algorithms and data structures, especially in dynamic settings | Responsible computing, especially differential privacy | Algorithms engineering


Recent Publications

Zheng DW, Henzinger MH. 2024. Multiplicative auction algorithm for approximate maximum weight bipartite matching. Mathematical Programming. View

Goranci G, Henzinger MH, Räcke H, Sachdeva S, Sricharan AR. 2024. Electrical flows for polylogarithmic competitive oblivious routing. 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference. ITCS: Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, LIPIcs, vol. 287, 55. View

Henzinger MH, Saulpic D, Sidl L. 2024. Experimental evaluation of fully dynamic k-means via coresets. 2024 Proceedings of the Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments. ALENEX: Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, 220–233. View

Cultrera di Montesano S, Edelsbrunner H, Henzinger MH, Ost L. 2024. Dynamically maintaining the persistent homology of time series. Proceedings of the 2024 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorigthms, 243–295. View

Henzinger MH, Jin B, Peng R, Williamson DP. 2023. A combinatorial cut-toggling algorithm for solving Laplacian linear systems. Algorithmica. 85, 2680–3716. View

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Career

since 2023 Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
2009 – 2023 Professor, University of Vienna
2005 – 2009 Professor, EPFL, Switzerland
1999 – 2005 Google
1996 – 1999 Digital Equipment Corporation
1993 – 1996 Assistant Professor at Cornell University, USA
1993 PhD Princeton University, USA


Selected Distinctions

2021 Wittgenstein Award
2021 ERC Advanced Grant
2019 Stanford University Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair
2019 Carus medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2018 Science Award of the City of Vienna
2017 SIGIR Test of Time Award
2017 Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2016 Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery
2014 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2014 Fellow of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science
2014 ERC Advanced Grant
2013 Honorary Doctorate of the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
2013 Member of the Academia Europaea
2004 European Young Investigator Award of the European Science Foundation
2001 Top 25 Women on the Web Award
1995: CAREER Development Award of the National Science Foundation




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