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Berman is a thought leader who explores complex challenges and builds communities. Her early work on application scheduling focused on relative performance of distributed autonomous agents, pre-dating clouds. Subsequent work expanded national awareness of the challenges and importance of data infrastructure, providing leadership and a vision for the San Diego Supercomputer Center as an early pioneer. Berman co-founded the international Research Data Alliance, focusing on the development / use of data infrastructure, and helped grow RDA to 8000+ members in 6 years. She was awarded the inaugural ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award in 2009 for "influential leadership in the design, development and deployment of national-scale cyberinfrastructure", appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Humanities in 2015, elected to the National Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Public Administration, and received the 2020 Paul Evan Peters Award, sponsored by Educause, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the Association of Research Libraries. Berman is currently spearheading an all-campus initiative in Public Interest Technology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.