Keren Bergman

Principal Investigator

Keren Bergman is the Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University where she also serves as the Faculty Director of the Columbia Nano Initiative. Prof. Bergman received the B.S. from Bucknell University in 1988, and the M.S. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1994 from M.I.T. all in Electrical Engineering. At Columbia, Bergman leads the Lightwave Research Laboratory encompassing multiple cross-disciplinary programs at the intersection of computing and photonics. Bergman is the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Photonics Engineering Award and is a Fellow of Optica (Optical Society of America) and IEEE.

Curriculum Vitae

  • AIM Photonics Institute, Leadership Council, Strategic Advisory Board (2016 - Present)
  • Founder and Faculty Director, Columbia Nano Initiative (2014 - Present)
  • Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering (2011 - Present)
  • Director, Lightwave Research Laboratory, Columbia University (2002 - Present)
  • Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (2011 - 2017)
  • Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (2006 - 2010)
  • Visiting Research Fellow IBM T. J. Watson Research Labs (2007-2008)
  • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (2002-2006)
  • Senior Technical Adviser, National Security Agency (1998 - 2007)
  • Senior Member of Technical Staff, Tellium, Inc. (1999 - 2002)  
  • Technical Consultant, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (1995 - 2000)  
  • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University (1994 - 1999)
  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (June 1994)
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (February 1991)
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Bucknell University (June 1988); summa cum laude

 

  • American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics)
    • Strategic Advisory Board, 2021-present
    • Leadership Council, 2016-2021
  • Irish Photonic Integration Center (IPIC) Scientific Advisory Committee chair (SAC), 2019 – present
  • DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), 2016-present.
  • Society of Women Engineers (SWE); Engineering Women's Forum; Columbia SEAS days on campus women engineering panel; Women in engineering day
  • DOE Brookhaven National Laboratory Computational Science, scientific advisory board, 2018 – present
  • International Supercomputing and High-Performance Computing Conference ISC
    • 2022 Technical Program Chair
    • 2020 Track lead for Emerging Technologies
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Supercomputing (SC)
    • Technical Program Committee, Post Moore Computing, 2022
    • Architecture and Networking technical area, (committee chair 2014) 2010-2017
    • Organizer Disruptive Technologies Panel 2011
  • University of Cambridge Board of Electors Van Eck Professorship of Engineering, - 2022-present
  • Applied Physics APL Photonics Editorial Advisory Board 2015-2019
  • IEEE Photonics Award Committee (2017- 2019)
  • DOE ASCAC Subcommittee on Exascale Research Challenges 2013-14
  • IEEE JSTQE Guest editor for Special Issue on “Optical Interconnects for Data Centers,” 2013.
  • IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the joint journal created through IEEE and Optica (OSA) (2009-2013)
  • OSA Journal of Optical Networks Editor-in-Chief (2007-2009)
  • IEEE Photonic Technology Letters, Associate Editor (2004 - 2009)
  • DARPA IPTO Exascale Study Group; “Exascale computing study: Technology challenges in achieving exascale systems,” 2007-09.
  • Optical Society of America Board of Directors (2001 - 2003)
  • Co-organizer and Chair of the OSA/DOE workshop on “Optical Interconnects for Extreme Scale Computing” 2015.
  • IEEE/OSA Photonics in Switching, General Chair, 2014
  • IEEE/OSA Photonics in Switching, Technical Program chair, 2012-2013
  • Co-organizer, OSA/NSF Workshop on Scaling Terabit Networks, 2011
  • IEEE Photonics Society, VP for publications (2003 - 2004);
  • IEEE Photonics Society, VP for membership Americas (1999 - 2002)
  • IEEE Photonics Society, Board of Governors (1996 – 1999)
  • Lawrence Berkley National Labs, Co-organizer ‘Future Technology Scaling for Efficient Digital Electronics’ workshop, 2016
  • Group IV Photonics, Technical Program Committee, 2015-17
  • ACM SIGCOMM Technical Program Committee, 2015-17
  • IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals technical committee 2013-2015
  • IEEE Globecom Optical Networks and Systems Technical Program Committee (2012-2014)
  • DOE/NSA workshop: Photonic and Electronics Technology for Extreme Scale Computing (PETE), Co-organizer and technical program chair 2012.
  • OSA/IEEE Optical Fiber Communications Conference
    • CompuCom Technical subcommittee Chair 2012
    • CompuCom Symposium, organizer 2011
    • Workshop co-organizer, “Can Integrated Photonics Enable Optical Interconnection Networks in Advanced Computing?” 2009
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO
    • Micro and Nano-Photonics Technical Committee (2006-2011), Chair for 2009, 2010.
    • Ultrafast Technical Committee (2000-2003); UEO program chair 2005
  • High-Performance Embedded Computing, HPEC Technical Committee 2009-2013
  • Hot Interconnects Conference, technical program (2007-2011) General Chair, 2009
  • National Security Agency Advanced Computing Systems, Senior Technical Leader on Interconnects thrust.
  • DOE Institute for Advanced Architectures and Algorithms (IAA) workshop on Interconnection Networks, co-organizer 2008.
  • NSF Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), Optical Substrate Study Group (2007- 09); Co-chair for 2008 Networking Research Challenges Workshop
  • IEEE–Photonics Society (LEOS), Chair, Committee on Optical Networking and Systems (2004 - 2007), Technical Committee (1999–2002)
  • HPCwire People to Watch Award 2022
  • Meta (Facebook) Faculty Award 2021
  • Bucknell University Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award 2019
  • IEEE Photonics Engineering Achievement Award 2016
  • MIT Herman Haus Distinguished Lecture 2016
  • Women Stars in Computer Networking and Communications 2016
  • National Academy of Engineering EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 2016
  • National Academies Panel on Digitization and Communications Science for the Army Research Laboratory, member 2010-2012
  • Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering 2011
  • Fellow, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) Defense Science Study Group 2010-12
  • Fellow of IEEE 2009
  • IBM Faculty Award 2008
  • Optica (Optical Society of America) Fellow 2003
  • California Institute of Technology President’s Award 1997
  • Wentz Award for Teaching and Scholarship 1996
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator 1996-1999
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Program Investigator 1995-1998
  • Tau Beta Pi
  • AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellowship, 1991-1994
  • General Electric Fellow, 1988-1989
  • Eastman Kodak Scholar 1985-1988