[1] During this time, she led a project funded by NASA and the NSA to test components of an optical communications network for supercomputing.

[1] According to her member biography from OSTI's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (of which she was a member from 2016 to 2019),[5]As director of the Lightwave Research Laboratory she leads multiple research programs on optical interconnection networks for advanced computing systems, data centers, optical packet-switched routers, and chip multiprocessor nanophotonic networks-on-chip.In 2019 a team led by Bergman won a $4.8 million DARPA grant to support the development of a new class of on-chip optical interconnects that scale performance without increasing energy costs.

[6] Returning to the lab in July 2020, after a hiatus caused by COVID-19, Bergman told Columbia Engineering News that her team used the break to find new ways to do informal interactions as well as remote data analysis.

[8] She was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2009 "for contributions to development of optical interconnection and transport networks".

[9] Bergman also won the 2016 IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award "[f]or pioneering contributions to optical interconnection networks and photonic-enabled architectures that advance communications and computing systems.