Presenter

Katherine Yelick is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley and the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in parallel programming languages, compilers, algorithms, and automatic performance tuning. Yelick was Director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) from 2008 to 2012 and currently leads the Computing Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, which includes NERSC, the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the Computational Research Division (CRD). Yelick was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the American Associate of Arts and Sciences, and is an ACM Fellow and recipient of the ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy and ACM-W Athena awards.