Katherine Yelick

Katherine A. Yelick
Kathy Yelick Testifies at House Hearing
Kathy Yelick from LBNL Testifies at House Hearing on Big Data Challenges and Advanced Computing
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
SpouseJames Demmel
AwardsACM Fellow (2013)
ACM Ken Kennedy Award (2015)
National Academy of Engineering (2017)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2018)
Scientific career
Fieldshigh performance computing
programming languages
parallel computing
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
ThesisUsing abstraction in explicitly parallel programs (1990)
Doctoral advisorJohn Guttag
Websitewww.cs.berkeley.edu/~yelick/

Katherine "Kathy" Anne Yelick, an American computer scientist, is the vice chancellor for research and the Robert S. Pepper Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She is also a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she was Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences from 2010–2019.[2]

  1. ^ "Katherine Yelick". Berkeley Research. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
  2. ^ "Kathy Yelick to Step Down as ALD for Computing Sciences". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved March 18, 2023.