Presenter

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. Keren received her BS from Bucknell University, and her MS and PhD from MIT, all in electrical engineering. 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 multi-university center funded by DARPA and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) under the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0). Keren 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. She is the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Engineering Award and the Optica C.E.K. Mees Medal. Keren is a Fellow of Optica and IEEE.