Bonnie Berger

Bonnie Anne Berger (born 1964 or 1965) is an American applied mathematician and computer scientist, 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, including landmark work on comparative human-mouse genome analysis, coiled coil protein structure prediction and the invention of compressive genomics.