March Celebrity of the Month – Katherine Bouman

Katherine Bouman, is an American computer scientist working in the field of computer imagery.

Katherine Bouman is an American computer scientist working in the field of computer imagery.  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.

She is an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences in California Institute of Technology.