Bonnie Berger

Professor of Applied Mathematics

Bonnie Berger is Professor of Applied Mathematics, and on the faculty of the Computation and Biology group at the MIT-CSAIL. She is also an affiliate member of Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and MIT's Computer Science and Systems Biology initiative (CSBi). Bonnie Berger received the A.B. in computer science from Brandeis University, the S.M. and Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1986 and 90. Berger's thesis won the George M. Sprowles Prize, under the supervision of Silvio Micali. She continued as a post-doctoral fellow at MIT while simultaneously serving as a mathematical consultant at AT&T Bell Labs. She joined the MIT faculty in applied mathematics in 1992, holding a joint appointment at the Lab for Computer Science (now known as CSAIL), and became head of the computation and biology group in 1994. She was promoted to professor in 2002.

Professor Berger's major areas of research are in applying mathematical techniques to problems in molecular biology. The focus of her research has been on the following core problem areas: comparative genomics, protein structural motif recognition and discovery, molecular self-assembly and mis-assembly, and functional genomics. In 1997, she received MIT's Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Professorship, and in 1998 the Biophysical Society's Dayhoff Award. She was selected for Technology Review's TR100 Award in 1999, as one of the 100 top young innovators for 21st century. She was elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2004.

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