Director of NERSC, Associate Berkeley Lab Director for Computing Sciences, & Professor of Computer Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) & University of California at Berkeley, USA

Katherine Yelick is Director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, She has just been named Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences, where she will have oversight over both NERSC and LBNL’s Computational Research Division, which conducts applied math and computer science research and operate DOE’s ESnet.

She is the author or co-author of two books and more than 100 refereed technical papers on parallel languages, compilers, algorithms, libraries, architecture and storage. She co-invented the UPC and Titanium languages and demonstrated their applicability across architectures using novel runtime and compilation methods. She also co-developed techniques for self-tuning numerical libraries. Her work includes performance analysis and modeling as well as optimization techniques for memory hierarchies, multicore processors, communication libraries and processor accelerators. She earned her Ph.D. in EECS from MIT.