# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katie-bouman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:20:51.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katie-bouman"
name: "Katie Bouman"
slug: "katie-bouman"
description: "Katherine Louise Bouman 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."
tagline: "American engineer and computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katie_Bouman_answers_questions_about_the_Event_Horizon_Telescope_project.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1989-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 905
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump