Bonnie Berger

Bonnie Berger
Bonnie Berger
Born	Bonnie Anne Berger; 1964 or 1965 (age 60–61)
Education	Brandeis University (BS); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouse	F. Thomson Leighton
Awards	SIAM Fellow (2022); National Academy of Sciences, Member (2020); AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Award (2020); AMS Fellow (2019); ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2019); AIMBE Fellow (2016); American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member (2012); ISCB Fellow (2012); ACM Fellow (2003); MIT Technology Review TR100 Award (1999); International Congress of Mathematicians Invited Speaker (1998); Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award (1997); Machtey Award (1989);
	Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics
Thesis	Using Randomness to Design Efficient Deterministic Algorithms (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Silvio Micali
Doctoral students	Manolis Kellis; Serafim Batzoglou; Lior Pachter; Mona Singh;
Website	people.csail.mit.edu/bab

Bonnie Anne Berger (born 1964 or 1965) is an American applied mathematician and computer scientist, and one of the founding researchers of computational molecular biology. She is the Simons Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she leads the Computation and Biology group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Her research spans algorithms, bioinformatics, genomics, structural biology, and genomic privacy; landmark contributions include the first comparative human-mouse genome analysis, coiled coil protein structure prediction, and the invention of compressive genomics.