Presenter

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 (http://lightwave.ee.columbia.edu/) encompassing multiple cross-disciplinary programs at the intersection of computing and photonics. Her work involves the design exploration, architecture, and implementation of photonic systems that incorporate the advantages of manipulating information in the optical domain for accelerating energy efficient high performance computing and data centers. Bergman serves on the Leadership Council of AIM Photonics leading projects that support the institute’s silicon photonics manufacturing capabilities and Datacom applications. She is the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Photonics Engineering Award and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and IEEE.