Keren Bergman

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]

Keren Bergman
EducationBucknell University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsOptical Society Fellow (2003)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow (2009)
IEEE Photonics Engineering Award (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsColumbia University
ThesisQuantum noise reduction with pulsed light in optical fibers (1994)

Education and career

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 Ph.D. 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 1994–2000.[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]

Awards and honors

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]

References
  1. "Keren Bergman". Columbia Engineering. Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  2. Simonite, Tom (August 4, 2010). "Computing at the Speed of Light". MIT Technology Review. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  3. "The Hermann Anton Haus Lecture: Keren Bergman". MIT Research Laboratory of Electronice. April 20, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2020. Dr. 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. Prof. Hermann Haus was her advisor through her graduate research at M.I.T. which focused on quantum noise reduction and soliton propagation in optical fibers.
  4. Cohen, Jarrett (1998). "Mix of technologies spur future supercomputer". NASA. Retrieved July 31, 2020. Led by Keren Bergman, Princeton University is testing components of HTMT's optical communications network, which connects an array of processor-in-memory (PIM) chips. The network and PIM chips collaborate to ensure superconductor processors have sufficient data to keep constantly busy.
  5. "ASCAC member bios". US Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC). 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2020. 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.
  6. Evarts, Holly (September 18, 2019). "Keren Bergman Wins $4.8M DARPA Grant". Columbia University News.
  7. Adams, Jesse (July 7, 2020). "Back in the Lab: Research ramp up across Columbia Engineering met with great enthusiasm". Columbia Engineering News. Retrieved July 31, 2020. Lightwave Research Lab head Prof. Keren Bergman took advantage of the hiatus to work with her team on remotely conducting data analysis and modeling, as well as thought experiments in design, system architecture—and intergroup dynamics.
  8. "2003 Fellows of the Optical Society of America". 2003. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  9. "IEEE Fellows 2009". www.comsoc.org. IEEE Communications Society. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  10. "IEEE Engineering Achievement Award - Engineering Achievement Award Winners".
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