Kathy Yelick

Kathy Yelick is Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a post she assumed on 1 July 2026 as the laboratory's ninth director following approval by the UC Board of Regents. She is also the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab, having earlier served as Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences and as director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Her research focuses on high-performance computing, programming languages, compilers, parallel algorithms, and automatic performance tuning. She earned her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1991.