12 Facts About Bonnie Berger

Bonnie Berger is the head of the Computation and Biology group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Bonnie Berger has served as vice president of the International Society for Computational Biology and chair of the steering committee for RECOMB.

Bonnie Berger was the 1997 winner of the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award.

In 1999, Bonnie Berger was included in a list of 100 top innovators published by Technology Review.

In 2003, Bonnie Berger became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and in 2012 she became an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow the International Society for Computational Biology.

In 2016, Bonnie Berger was inducted into the college of fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Bonnie Berger was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to computational biology, bioinformatics, algorithms and for mentoring".

Bonnie Berger received the Honorary Doctorate at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

Bonnie Berger serves as a Member-at-Large of the Section on Mathematics at American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bonnie Berger was awarded the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award in 2019.

Bonnie Berger was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows, "for pioneering work in computational molecular biology, including comparative and compressive genomics, network inference, genomic privacy, and protein structure prediction".

Bonnie Berger is married to MIT professor and CEO of Akamai Technologies F Thomson Leighton.