Katherine Yelick

Katherine A. Yelick
Kathy Yelick in front of Hopper Cray XE6
Fields	high performance computing programming languages parallel computing
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Using abstraction in explicitly parallel programs (1990)
Doctoral advisor	John Guttag
Notable awards	ACM Fellow (2013) ACM Ken Kennedy Award(2015)
Spouse	James Demmel
Website www.cs.berkeley.edu/~yelick/

Katherine "Kathy" Anne Yelick is an American computer scientist, a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Katherine Yelick received her SB, SM, and PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. She joined the research staff at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1996 as a joint-appointment faculty research scientist, and has been the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences since 2010. She is known for her work in partitioned global address space programming languages, including co-inventing the Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Titanium languages. She also led the Sparsity project, the first automatically tuned library for sparse matrix kernels, and she co-led the development of the Optimized Sparse Kernel Interface (OSKI). From 2008 tp 2012 she was the director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. From 2009 to 2015 she was a member of the California Council on Science and Technology.