Part-Time Lecturer, College of Professional Studies
Biography
Dr. David Bergner joined the faculty of Northeastern University in Silicon Valley in 2021. He is an energetic organizational leader, accomplished technologist, and passionate teacher with a strong commitment to his students. He has served in executive management, strategic planning, organizational development, program and project management, management of scientific research, technology R&D, engineering design, training, and teaching. During a thirty-year career at NASA, he contributed to the creation and implementation of projects, research programs, and new initiatives in various areas, including Space Biology, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Aeronautics, Organizational Risk Management, Knowledge Engineering, and Information Technology. He successfully managed multiple concurrent projects, programs, and R&D portfolios, and served as Chief of the Division of Space Biosciences at NASA Ames Research Center. He managed the Ames Project Excellence Program (APEX) to develop new cadres of emerging leaders in Project Management and Systems Engineering at Ames. After leaving NASA he established a Master of Business Administration program at Sofia University in Palo Alto, CA, which was taught in English and Mandarin Chinese, with program enrollment reaching sixteen hundred students.
Dr. Bergner teaches courses in Leadership, Management, Quantitative Methods, and Decision Science. His work lies at the intersection of decision-making, communication systems, and design thinking.
Education
- PhD in Management Science, Stanford University
- MS in Engineering Economic Systems, Stanford University
- BS in Applied Sciences, University of Louisville
Research Interests
Decision analysis, dialogue processes, organizational and team factors in data science, and online decision support communities
