Bonnie Berger

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Bonnie Berger
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Born
Bonnie Anne Berger

1964or1965(age 60–61)
Education Brandeis University (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouse F. Thomson Leighton
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Bioinformatics [2]
Thesis Using Randomness to Design Efficient Deterministic Algorithms  (1990)
Doctoral advisor Silvio Micali [3]
Doctoral students
Website people.csail.mit.edu/bab

Bonnie Anne Berger (born 1964or1965 [6] ) is an American applied mathematician and computer scientist. She is a Simons Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the head of the Computation and Biology group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Her work is in algorithms, bioinformatics [2] and computational molecular biology. [7]

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Biography

Berger was born and raised in Miami. [8] [9] Her paternal grandfather was a Jewish immigrant who came to the United States from Russia at the beginning of World War I, and her father owned a home building business in Miami. [10] [11] [12] She received a BS from Brandeis University in 1983 and a PhD from MIT in 1990 advised by 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. [13]

After completing her PhD, Berger remained at MIT for postdoctoral research and later 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] [14] [15] 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) [16] and chair of the steering committee for RECOMB. [17]

Awards and honours

Berger was the 1997 winner of the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award. [18] In 1998 she was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin (but she was unable to make a personal appearance). [19] In 1999, Berger was included in a list of 100 top innovators published by Technology Review . [20] In 2003, Berger became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), [21] 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). [22] [23] In 2016, Berger was inducted into the college of fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). [24] She was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to computational biology, bioinformatics, algorithms and for mentoring". [25] 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, [26] and additionally was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [27] 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". [28]

Personal life

She is married to MIT professor and CEO of Akamai Technologies F. Thomson Leighton. [29] [30]

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 1 2 3 Bonnie Berger publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. 1 2 3 4 Bonnie Berger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  4. 1 2 Curriculum vitae: Lior Pachter (PDF), March 2015, retrieved October 22, 2015
  5. 1 2 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. Lock-green.svg
  6. ↑ "Bonnie Berger". MIT Technology Review. November 1, 1999.
  7. 1 2 3 "Bonnie Berger - MIT Mathematics". math.mit.edu. Archived from the original on April 10, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  8. ↑ ""Data, data, data"". MIT Technology Review. June 29, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Book of Life". Greater Miami Jewish Federation.
  10. ↑ Fogg, Christiana N; Shamir, Ron; Kovats, Diane E (December 22, 2020). "Bonnie Berger named ISCB 2019 ISCB Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award recipient". Bioinformatics. 36 (20): 5122–5123. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz389. ISSN   1367-4803. PMC   7755407 . PMID   33351928.
  11. ↑ Poreh, Cinthya (April 22, 2021). "Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus". Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus - WE ARE BETH TORAH.
  12. ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths BERGER, ADOLPH J". NYTimes.com. April 2, 2018.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Berger, Bonnie (1992). "Tight Bounds for the Maximum Acyclic Subgraph Problem". Journal of Algorithms. 25: 1–18. doi:10.1006/jagm.1997.0864.
  16. ↑ "Aug 18, 2014 - ISCB Announces Results of the 2014 Officer Elections". ISCB. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  17. ↑ "RECOMB STEERING COMMITTEE" . Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  18. ↑ Dayhoff Award, Biophysical Society, retrieved January 15, 2015.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ "Bonnie Berger, 34", technologyreview.com, Innovators Under 35, Technology Review, 1999, archived from the original on November 12, 2018, retrieved January 15, 2015.
  21. ↑ "Bonnie Berger: ACM Fellow". awards.acm.org.
  22. ↑ 2012 new members Archived May 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , American Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved January 15, 2015.
  23. ↑ "Berger Named ISCB Fellow - MIT CSAIL" . Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  24. ↑ "Bonnie Berger to be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite" (PDF). AIMBE. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  25. ↑ 2019 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society , retrieved November 7, 2018
  26. ↑ "Sonia Kovalevsky Lectures".
  27. ↑ "2020 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  28. ↑ "SIAM Announces Class of 2022 Fellows". SIAM News. March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  29. ↑ Eisenberg, David (July 28, 2022). "Bonnie Berger '83 Establishes Junior Professorship in Mathematics with $2.5 Million Gift". Brandeis.
  30. ↑ "A renewed home for the MIT Mathematics Department". MIT Science. June 10, 2016.
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