Bonnie Berger

Bonnie Berger
Born Bonnie Anne Berger
Alma mater Brandeis University (SB)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Bioinformatics[1]
Thesis Using Randomness to Design Efficient Deterministic Algorithms (1990)
Doctoral advisor Silvio Micali[2]
Doctoral students
Website people.csail.mit.edu/bab

Bonnie Anne Berger is an American mathematician and computer scientist, who works as the Simons professor of mathematics and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in algorithms, bioinformatics[1] and computational molecular biology.[5]

Education

Berger did her undergraduate studies at Brandeis University, and earned her doctorate from MIT in 1990 under the supervision of Silvio Micali.[5][2] As a student, she won the Machtey Award in 1989 for a paper on parallel algorithms that she published with fellow student John Rompel at the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science.

Career and research

After her PhD, Berger remained at MIT for postdoctoral research where she became a faculty member in 1992.[5] Her research in bioinformatics has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Science.[1][6] Her former doctoral students include Serafim Batzoglou,[2] Lior Pachter[3] and Mona Singh.[4]

As of January 2015, Berger has served as vice president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)[7] and chair of the Steering Committee for RECOMB.

Awards and honours

Berger was the 1997/1998 winner of the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award.[8] In 1999, Berger was included in a list of 100 top innovators published by Technology Review.[9] In 2003, Berger became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),[10] and in 2012 she became a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the ISCB.[11][12] In 2016, Berger was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.[13] She also received the Honorary Doctorate at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bonnie Berger publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bonnie Berger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 Curriculum vitae: Lior Pachter (PDF), March 2015, retrieved 2015-10-22
  4. 1 2 Singh, Mona (1996). Learning algorithms with applications to robot navigation and protein folding. dspace.mit.edu (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/40579. OCLC 680493381.
  5. 1 2 3 "Bonnie Berger - MIT Mathematics". math.mit.edu.
  6. ↑ Roy, S.; Ernst, J.; Kharchenko, P. V.; Kheradpour, P.; Negre, N.; Eaton, M. L.; Landolin, J. M.; Bristow, C. A.; Ma, L.; Lin, M. F.; Washietl, S.; Arshinoff, B. I.; Ay, F.; et al. (2010). "Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE". Science. 330 (6012): 1787–1797. doi:10.1126/science.1198374. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 3192495. PMID 21177974.
  7. ↑ "Aug 18, 2014 - ISCB Announces Results of the 2014 Officer Elections". ISCB. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Dayhoff Award, Biophysical Society, retrieved 2015-01-15.
  9. ↑ "Bonnie Berger, 34", Innovators Under 35, Technology Review, 1999 .
  10. ↑ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2015-01-15.
  11. ↑ 2012 new members, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2015-01-15.
  12. ↑ "Berger Named ISCB Fellow - MIT CSAIL". Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "Bonnie Berger to be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite" (PDF). AIMBE. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
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