"Keren Bergman, chair of Columbia Engineering's Department of Electrical Engineering, is a groundbreaking researcher whose work in dynamic optical data routing is tackling problems as diverse as relieving the information gridlock on the Internet and ensuring high-performance interconnects for communicating massive volumes of information at nearly the speed of light. As director of Columbia's Lightwave Research Laboratory, she is developing a new class of nanoscale photonic interconnect technologies that seamlessly move data from on-chip networks, across memory, and large computing systems with extreme energy efficiencies. These future platforms, driven by nanophotonic-enabled interconnectivity, and the enormous bandwidth advantage of dense wavelength division multiplexing, fundamentally transform the computation-communications architecture, creating systems poised to meet explosive information demands at all scales. Dr. Bergman received her Ph.D. from MIT in 1994 and worked in industry and academe before joinng Columbia. She is a fellow of both the OSA and the IEEE."
"The Charles and Rosanna Batchelor Memorial Chair of Electrical Engineering was established by an endowment given by the Charles and Rosanna Batchelor Memorial Inc. Charles Batchelor, one of Thomas Alva Edison's closest laboratory assistants, worked with Edison on projects in telegraphy, telephony, the phonograph, and electric lighting, and was an early mentor to legendary inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla."
