Bonnie Berger
American mathematician and computer scientist
Bonnie Anne Berger (born 1964 or 1965[ 6] ) 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 . She is the head of the Computation and Biology group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory . Her research interests are in algorithms , bioinformatics [ 2] and computational molecular biology .[ 7]
Education
Berger did her undergraduate studies at Brandeis University , and earned her doctorate from MIT in 1990 under the supervision of Silvio Micali .[ 7] [ 3] 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 .[ 8]
Career and research
After completing her PhD, Berger remained at MIT for postdoctoral research where she became a faculty member in 1992.[ 7] Her research in bioinformatics has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Science , the Journal of Algorithms .[ 2] [ 9] [ 10] Her former doctoral students include Serafim Batzoglou ,[ 3] Lior Pachter ,[ 4] Mona Singh ,[ 5] Manolis Kellis , and Phil Bradley.
Berger has served as vice president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)[ 11] and chair of the steering committee for RECOMB .[ 12]
Awards and honours
Berger was the 1997 winner of the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award .[ 13] In 1998 she was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin (but she was unable to make a personal appearance).[ 14] In 1999, Berger was included in a list of 100 top innovators published by Technology Review .[ 15] In 2003, Berger became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),[ 16] and in 2012 she became an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).[ 17] [ 18] In 2016, Berger was inducted into the college of fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).[ 19] She was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to computational biology, bioinformatics, algorithms and for mentoring".[ 20] She also received the Honorary Doctorate at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). She serves as a Member-at-Large of the Section on Mathematics at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was awarded the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award in 2019.[ 1] In 2020 she gave the AWM -SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture,[ 21] and additionally was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[ 22] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows, "for pioneering work in computational molecular biology, including comparative and compressive genomics, network inference, genomic privacy, and protein structure prediction".[ 23]
Personal life
She is married to MIT professor and CEO of Akamai Technologies F. Thomson Leighton .[ 24] [ 25]
References
^ a b Fogg, Christiana N; Shamir, Ron ; Kovats, Diane E (2019). "Bonnie Berger named ISCB 2019 ISCB Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award recipient" . Bioinformatics . 8 (20): 5122–5123. doi :10.1093/bioinformatics/btz389 . ISSN 1367-4803 . PMC 6534070 . PMID 31164973 .
^ a b c Bonnie Berger publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ a b c d Bonnie Berger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ a b Curriculum vitae: Lior Pachter (PDF) , March 2015, retrieved October 22, 2015
^ a b Singh, Mona (1996). Learning algorithms with applications to robot navigation and protein folding (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl :1721.1/40579 . OCLC 680493381 .
^ "Bonnie Berger" . MIT Technology Review . November 1, 1999.
^ a b c "Bonnie Berger - MIT Mathematics" . math.mit.edu . Archived from the original on April 10, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2015 .
^ Fogg, C. N.; Shamir, R.; Kovats, D. E. (2020). "Bonnie Berger - Awards" . Bioinformatics . 36 (20): 5122–5123. doi :10.1093/bioinformatics/btz389 . PMC 7755407 . PMID 33351928 .
^ 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. Bibcode :2010Sci...330.1787R . doi :10.1126/science.1198374 . ISSN 0036-8075 . PMC 3192495 . PMID 21177974 .
^ Berger, Bonnie (1992). "Tight Bounds for the Maximum Acyclic Subgraph Problem". Journal of Algorithms . 25 : 1–18. doi :10.1006/jagm.1997.0864 .
^ "Aug 18, 2014 - ISCB Announces Results of the 2014 Officer Elections" . ISCB. Retrieved January 17, 2015 .
^ "RECOMB STEERING COMMITTEE" . Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
^ Dayhoff Award , Biophysical Society, retrieved January 15, 2015.
^ Batzoglou, Serafim; Berger, Bonnie; Kleitman, Daniel J. ; Lander, Eric ; Pachter, Lior (1998). "Recent developments in computational gene recognition" . Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. I . pp. 649–658.
^ "Bonnie Berger, 34" , technologyreview.com , Innovators Under 35, Technology Review , 1999, archived from the original on November 12, 2018, retrieved January 15, 2015 .
^ "Bonnie Berger: ACM Fellow" . awards.acm.org .
^ 2012 new members Archived May 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , American Academy of Arts and Sciences , retrieved January 15, 2015.
^ "Berger Named ISCB Fellow - MIT CSAIL" . Retrieved January 17, 2015 .
^ "Bonnie Berger to be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite" (PDF) . AIMBE. Retrieved March 6, 2016 .
^ 2019 Class of the Fellows of the AMS , American Mathematical Society , retrieved November 7, 2018
^ "Sonia Kovalevsky Lectures" .
^ "2020 NAS Election" . www.nasonline.org . Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
^ "SIAM Announces Class of 2022 Fellows" . SIAM News . March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 31, 2022 .
^ Eisenberg, David (July 28, 2022). "Bonnie Berger '83 Establishes Junior Professorship in Mathematics with $2.5 Million Gift" . Brandeis.
^ "A renewed home for the MIT Mathematics Department" . MIT Science. June 10, 2016.
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