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Katherine "Kathy" Anne Yelick is an American computer scientist, a
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of Electrical Engineering and
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s at the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, and the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.


Education and career

Katherine Yelick received her SB, SM, and PhD in
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from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
. She joined the faculty at the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
in 1991. She joined the research staff at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1996 as a joint-appointment faculty
research scientist A scientist is a person who conducts scientific research to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences. In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, philosophers engaged in the philosophic ...
, and has been the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences since 2010. She is known for her work in
partitioned global address space In computer science, partitioned global address space (PGAS) is a parallel programming model paradigm. PGAS is typified by communication operations involving a global memory address space abstraction that is logically partitioned, where a portio ...
programming languages, including co-inventing the
Unified Parallel C Unified Parallel C (UPC) is an extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, including those with a common global address space ( SMP and NUMA) and those with distributed memory ...
(UPC) and Titanium languages. She also led the Sparsity project, the first automatically tuned library for
sparse matrix In numerical analysis and scientific computing, a sparse matrix or sparse array is a matrix in which most of the elements are zero. There is no strict definition regarding the proportion of zero-value elements for a matrix to qualify as sparse b ...
kernels, and she co-led the development of the Optimized Sparse Kernel Interface (OSKI). From 2008 to 2012 she was the
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of the
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), is a high-performance computing (supercomputer) National User Facility operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy Office of Scien ...
. From 2009 to 2015 she was a member of the California Council on Science and Technology.


Selected publications


Awards and honors

In 2012 she was named as an
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"for ercontributions to parallel computing languages that have been used in both the research community and in production environments." In 2013 she received the ACM-W Athena Lecturer award at SC13. She received the ACM Ken Kennedy Award in 2015. In 2017 she was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of ...
and to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...
. She was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018. At the 2019 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference SC19 she was honored by HPCwire as their Editor’s Choice for Outstanding Leadership in HPC.


Personal life

Yelick is married to
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...
James Demmel, who is also an
ACM Fellow ACM or A.C.M. may refer to: Aviation * AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile * Air chief marshal * Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting * Air cycle machine * Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia Computing * ...
and works in
computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...
and
numerical linear algebra Numerical linear algebra, sometimes called applied linear algebra, is the study of how matrix operations can be used to create computer algorithms which efficiently and accurately provide approximate answers to questions in continuous mathematic ...
..


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yelick, Katherine A. Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists Year of birth missing (living people) UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty MIT School of Engineering alumni Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 21st-century American women