Berger was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for contributions to the theory and practice of lossy data compression.
[2] He was also an IEEE Fellow, a President of the IEEE Information Theory Society (1979), and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Engineering Education, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.
He received the 2002 Claude E. Shannon Award for his contributions to information theory, and the 2011 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.
[3] Berger was also a co-founder of SightSpeed, a company which originated in his lab at Cornell University, which was acquired by Logitech in 2008.
In 2017 he co-founded with his former student a Wi-Fi networks technology company, Cayuga Wireless, that is based on their multiple access research for multiuser physical layers.