Title
Professor

Department
Division of Computer Science/EECS


Faculty URL
http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~yelick/

Email
yelick@eecs.berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 495-2431

Fax
(510) 643-1534


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Research Expertise and Interest
high performance computing, partitioned Global Address Space programming, communication-avoiding algorithms, automatic performance tuning, high performance data analytics, computational biology

Research Description
Katherine (Kathy) Yelick is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of?Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences?and the Associate Dean for Research in the?Division of Computing, Data Science and Society?at?UC Berkeley. She is also the Senior Advisor on Computing at?Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in high performance computing, programming languages, compilers, parallel algorithms, and automatic performance tuning. She currently leads the?ExaBiome?project on scalable tools for analyzing microbial data and co-leads the Berkeley Benchmarking and Optimization (Bebop) group. She was the Associate Laboratory Director for?Computing Sciences at LBNL?from 2010 through 2019 and prior to that led the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Yelick is a member of National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she is a Fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.