Rate Professor Katherine Bouman

Academic Profile

Academic Background: B.S., University of Michigan, 2011; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.

Research Interests: Computational imaging, black hole imaging, and signal processing.

Appointments: Associate Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering, and Astronomy at Caltech; Rosenberg Scholar.

Awards: Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2019); Royal Photographic Society Progress Medal.

Publications: Articles in Astrophysical Journal Letters on the first image of a black hole.

Additional Contributions: Key contributor to the Event Horizon Telescope project.