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Francine Berman

Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Francine Berman has spent the last three decades at the forefront of digital innovation. She is the first woman to run an NSF Supercomputer Center (the San Diego Supercomputer Center) and co-founded the Research Data Alliance to build global data infrastructure. Her research focuses on the human side of technology and its impacts and risks. Berman is the Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She was appointed by President Obama to the citizen Council for the National Endowment for the Humanities, is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and spent 2019-2020 as a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.