Keren Bergman, Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects members who have made exceptional contributions to the arts, sciences, academia, business, and public affairs. Members include more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Columbia Engineering’s newest elected fellows span expertise in photonics, mathematical modeling, algorithms, and game theory.
“We congratulate Professor Bergman on this tremendous and richly deserved honor,” said Dean of Columbia Engineering Shih-Fu Chang. “Her contributions to scientific and engineering research have made a far-reaching impact on their respective fields.”
Induction ceremonies for new members will take place October 2026 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Keren Bergman
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.
Bergman’s work at the intersection of photonics and computing drives to exploit optical data movement for creating energy efficient extreme performance data centers. Bergman’s research on nanoscale photonic networks is pioneering new optical computing architectures that will enable the ultra-high speed communication of massive volumes of information.
She is developing a new class of nanoscale photonic interconnect technologies that seamlessly move data from on-chip networks, across memory and large computing systems with extreme energy efficiency. These future platforms, driven by nanophotonic-enabled interconnectivity and the enormous bandwidth advantage of dense wavelength division multiplexing, will fundamentally transform the computation-communications architecture, to create systems able to meet explosive information demands at all scales.
At Columbia, Bergman leads the Lightwave Research Laboratory encompassing multiple cross-disciplinary programs at the intersection of computing and photonics. Since 2023 Bergman has been the director of the Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC), a five-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 serves on the Leadership Council of the American Institute of Manufacturing (AIM) Photonics leading projects that support the institute’s silicon photonics manufacturing capabilities and Datacom applications.
Bergman received the BS from Bucknell University in 1988, and the MS in 1991 and PhD in 1994 from MIT all in electrical engineering. She is the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Engineering Award and the Optica C.E.K. Mees Medal. Bergman is a Fellow of Optica and IEEE.
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