Keren Bergman

Keren Bergman has been at Columbia University since 2002, where she is currently the Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering and serves as the Faculty Director of the Columbia Nano Initiative. She also leads the Lightwave Research Laboratory, encompassing multiple cross-disciplinary programs at the intersection of computing and photonics. Since 2023, Bergman is the Director of the Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC), a 5-year multi-university center funded by DARPA and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) under the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0).

Bergman received a BS in electrical engineering from Bucknell University in 1988 and a PhD in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. She is the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Engineering Award and is a Fellow of Optica and IEEE. In 2025, she received the C.E.K. Mees Medal, “For pioneering research on optical interconnects and photonic architectures for high-performance computing.”