Katherine Yelick

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Biographical Sketch
Kathy Yelick is associate lab director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The computing sciences area at Berkeley Lab is comprised of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division, the Scientific Networking Division and the Computational Research Division. Dr. Yelick has been a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1991 and is an internationally recognized expert in developing methods to advance the use of supercomputers. She earned her Ph.D. in computer science from MIT and has held a joint research appointment at Berkeley Lab since 1996. Her research interests include parallel computing, memory hierarchy optimizations, programming languages, and compilers.


