Keren Bergman | |
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Education | Bucknell University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Awards | Optical Society Fellow (2003) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow (2009) IEEE Photonics Engineering Award (2016) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Thesis | Quantum noise reduction with pulsed light in optical fibers (1994) |
Doctoral advisor | Hermann A. Haus |
Keren Bergman is an American electrical engineer who is the Charles Batchelor Professor at Columbia University.[1] She also serves as the director of the Lightwave Research Laboratory, a silicon photonics research group at Columbia University.[2] Her research focuses on nano-photonics and particularly optical interconnects for low power, high bandwidth computing applications.[2]
Bergman received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Bucknell University in 1988. She received a M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1991, and a PhD in 1994, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] During her graduate work at MIT, she worked with Hermann A. Haus, researching "quantum noise reduction and soliton propagation in optical fibers."[3]
Bergman was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton from 1994 to 2000.[1] During this time, she led a project funded by NASA and the NSA to test components of an optical communications network for supercomputing.[4]
Bergman went to Columbia as an associate professor of electrical engineering in 2001 and became director of its Lightwave Research Laboratory in 2002.[1] According to her member biography from OSTI's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (of which she was a member from 2016 to 2019),[5]
As director of the Lightwave Research Laboratory she leads multiple research programs on optical interconnection networks for advanced computing systems, data centers, optical packet-switched routers, and chip multiprocessor nanophotonic networks-on-chip.
In 2019 a team led by Bergman won a $4.8 million DARPA grant to support the development of a new class of on-chip optical interconnects that scale performance without increasing energy costs.[6]
Returning to the lab in July 2020, after a hiatus caused by COVID-19, Bergman told Columbia Engineering News that her team used the break to find new ways to do informal interactions as well as remote data analysis.[7]
In 2003 she was named a Fellow of The Optical Society "for seminal contributions to quantum noise reduction and soliton pulse generation".[8]
She was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2009 "for contributions to development of optical interconnection and transport networks".[9]
Bergman also won the 2016 IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award "[f]or pioneering contributions to optical interconnection networks and photonic-enabled architectures that advance communications and computing systems."[10]