Katherine Yelick
Professor
777 Soda Hall
Computer Science Division
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
Phone on campus: (510)642-8900
Phone at LBNL: (510) 495-2431
Fax: (510)642-5775
yelick@cs.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: TBD. The best way to reach me is by e-mail, not voicemail.
Biographical Sketch
Kathy Yelick received her Bachelors (1985), Masters (1985), and PhD (1991) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include parallel computing, memory hierarchy optimizations, programming languages and compilers. A summary of some current and ongoing projects is available, along with a CV in either postscript or pdf. Recent papers and a few talks are also available online.
Teaching
CS194-2: Introduction to Parallel Computing (Fall 2007)
CS4: Introduction to Computing for Engineers (Fall 2004)
CS267: Introduction to Parallel Computation (Spring 98, Fall 2001, Spring 2004, Spring 2007)
CS294-8: Principles of Fault Tolerant Computing
CS298-1: Systems Seminar (Fall 2000)
CS61B: Data Structures and Advanced Programming (Spring 2001, Fall 98, Fall 97)
CS263: Design of Programming Languages
Current Research Projects
Titanium: Compiler optimizations for explicitly parallel programs.
BeBOP: Berkeley Benchmarking and OPtimization Group.
UPC: High Performance Parallel C.
HPC Architecture Evaluations.
Past Projects
Intelligent RAM (IRAM): Software support for IRAM machine.
Intelligent Storage (ISTORE): Building large scale, highly available servers.
Sparsity: Automatic optimization of sparse matrix kernels.
Split-C: A performance programming language for parallel machines.
Multipol: A data structure library for distributed memory multiprocessors.
Coordination in Parallel Programs: Software support for coordinating parallel computation.
The Castle Project: Integrated software support for parallel computing.
Graduate Students and Postdocs
Dan Bonachea
Wei Chen
Kaushik Datta
Jason Duell
Amir Kamil
Shoaib Kamil
Rajesh Nishtala
Jimmy Su
Former Students and Postdocs
Christian Bell
Mani Narayanan
Ed Givelberg
Sabrina Merchant
Etienne Deprit
Noah Treuhaft
Siu Man Yau, now in graduate school at NYU
Eun-Jin Im, now a Professor at Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea.
Greg Balls, now at SDSC.
Randi Thomas, now at IBM
C.J. Lin
Deborah Weisser
Ngeci Bowman
Arvind Krishnamurthy, now a Professor in the CS Department at Yale.
Soumen Chakrabarti, now a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at IIT Bombay.
Chih-Po Wen, now at BDNA.
Jeff Jones, now working at Yahoo.
Steve Steinberg
Ruth Hinkins, now working at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory .