Scholar
Katherine Yelick
Google Scholar ID: 93yNuV0AAAAJ
Vice Chancellor for Research and EECS Professor, UC Berkeley and Sr. Faculty Scientist, LBNL
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,313
H-index
36
i10-index
89
Publications
20
Co-authors
26
list available
Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Associate Dean for Research, Division of Computing, Data Science and Society, UC Berkeley (2020–2021)
- Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences, LBNL (2010–2019)
- Formerly led the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Current projects: HipMer (high performance genome assembler), diBella (distributed memory long-read assembler), UPC++ (PGAS language based on C++), GASNet (Global Address Space networking layer)
- Past projects: DEGAS, Par Lab, Titanium, BIPS, IRAM, ISTORE, OSKI, Sparsity, Split-C, Multipol, The Castle Project
Background
- Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley
- Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley
- Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Research interests include high performance computing, programming languages, compilers, parallel algorithms, and automatic performance tuning
- Currently leads the ExaBiome project on scalable tools for analyzing microbial data
- Co-leads the Berkeley Benchmarking and Optimization (Bebop) group
