Keren Bergman

 

Appointments

  • 2006-Present   -   Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
  • 2007-2008       -   Sabbatical at IBM T. J. Watson Research Labs
  • 2002-Present   -   Director, Lightwave Research Laboratory, Columbia University
  • 1998-2007       -   Senior Technical Advisor, National Security Agency
  • 2001-2006       -   Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
  • 2000-2001       -   Senior Member of Technical Staff, Tellium, Inc.
  • 1994-2000       -   Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
  • 1995-2000       -   Technical Consultant, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, June 1994.
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, February 1991.
  • Bucknell University, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, June 1988. Summa Cum Laud.

Leadership

  • Thrust 1 co-Leader for Systems and Networks on NSF recently awarded ERC Center for Integrated Access Networks (led by Univ. of Arizona).
  • Senior Technical Leader on Interconnects for National Security Agency Advanced Computing Systems initiative on high-performance computing research (2006-2008).
  • Editor-in-Chief (2008 - ), OSA Journal of Optical Networking; Associate Editor (2001-2007)
  • Electrical Engineering Graduate Admissions and Doctoral Student Coordinator (2004-)
  • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Diversity Initiatives (program co-founder): created to promote and coordinates diversity programs for faculty, research staff, and graduate students.
  • Lead PI for Interconnect, DARPA's Hybrid Technology Multiple Threads computing systems (HTMT) program on heterogeneous technologies and multithreading in PetaFlop scale HPCS

Synergistic Professional Activities

  • DARPA Exascale Study Group on Technology Challenges for Achieving Exascale Systems, technical contributor on optical interconnection networks (Fall 2007). National Integrated High-End Computing Program Panel. Generated - The Roadmap for the Revitalization of High-End Computing, Washington D.C. June 2003.
  • NSF Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), Spiral-1 project on "Real-time embedded measurements," Optical Substrate Study Group (2007- ); Co-chair for 2008 Networking Research Challenges Workshop (ONT-4) sponsored by the Large-Scale Networking Coordination Group (including multiple federal agencies, NSF, DOE, DOD, etc.)
  • Hot Interconnects (HoTI'07, HoTI'08) Technical Program Committee, Co-Chair for Industry Forum; General Chair for HoTI 2009. SC09 Architecture Technical Committee.
  • Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Technical Committee (2008-); OFC 2008 Workshop co-organizer, "Can Optical Packet Switching Solve the Bottleneck Problem in Electronic Routers?" San Diego, CA (February, 2008).
  • Co-organizer DOE Institute for Advanced Architectures and Algorithms (IAA) workshop on Interconnection Networks (San Jose, 2008); leader, emerging technologies working group

Honors and Awards

  • IEEE Fellow 2009
  • IBM Faculty Award 2008
  • Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow 2003
  • CalTech President's Award 1997
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator 1996-1999
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Program Investigator 1995-1998
  • AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellowship, 1991-1994
  • General Electric Fellow, 1988-1989
  • Eastman Kodak Scholar 1985-1988
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© Keren Bergman 2003-2009