Bonnie Berger

Bonnie Anne Berger is an American mathematician and computer scientist, who works as a professor of applied mathematics and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her early research was in algorithms, and more recently she has done research in computational molecular biology.

Berger did her undergraduate studies at Brandeis University, and earned her doctorate from MIT in 1990 under the supervision of Silvio Micali. 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. She remained at MIT for her postdoctoral studies and became a faculty member there in 1992.

Berger was the 1997/1998 winner of the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award. In 1999, Berger was included in a list of 100 top innovators published by Technology Review. In 2003, Berger became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and in 2012 she became a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). In 2016, Berger was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

As of January 2015, Berger has served as Vice President of the ISCB.