Presenter

Katherine Yelick is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley. She is also a Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in HPC, programming languages, compilers, parallel algorithms, and automatic performance tuning. She leads the ExaBiome project on Exascale Solutions for Microbiome Analysis, part of DOE's Exascale Computing Project. She was Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at LBNL from 2010 through 2019. Yelick earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has been a professor at UC Berkeley since 1991 with a joint research appointment at LBNL since 1996. 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.