Speaker Bios
Russ Altman
is professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine (and of computer science, by courtesy) and chairman of the Bioengineering Department at Stanford University. His primary research interests are in the application of computing technology to basic molecular biological problems of relevance to medicine. He is particularly interested in informatics methods for advancing pharmacogenomics, the study of how human genetic variation impacts drug response (e.g. http://www.pharmgkb.org/). Other work focuses on the analysis of functional sites within macromolecules with a focus on understanding the action, interaction and adverse events of drugs. Dr. Altman holds a M.D. from Stanford Medical School, a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford, and an A.B. from Harvard College. He has been the recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He is a past-president, founding board member, and a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology. He is an organizer of the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. He leads one of seven NIH-supported National Centers for Biomedical Computation, focusing on physics-based simulation of biological structures. He won the Stanford Medical School graduate teaching award in 2000. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Eric Brown
earned his B.S. at the University of Vermont (1989) and M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts (1992, 1996), all in Computer Science. Dr. Brown joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1995 as a research staff member, and has been a manager since 2004. While at IBM Eric has conducted research in information retrieval, document categorization, text analysis, question answering, bioinformatics, and applications of automatic speech recognition. Since 2007 Dr. Brown has been a technical lead on the DeepQA project at IBM and the application of automatic, open domain question answering to build the Watson Question Answering system. The goal of Watson is to achieve human-level question answering performance. This goal was realized in February of 2011 when Watson beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a televised Jeopardy! exhibition match. Dr. Brown’s role on the project has spanned architecture development, special question processing, and hardware planning, and he is currently focused on applying Watson to clinical decision support in Healthcare. Dr. Brown has published numerous conference and journal papers, and holds several patents in the areas of text analysis and question answering. Dr. Brown currently resides in New Fairfield, CT with his wife and three children..
Erik Brynjolfsson
is the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review. His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, Internet commerce, pricing models and intangible assets. His recent work examines the social networks revealed by digital information flows, such as email traffic, and their relationships to information worker productivity. Dr. Brynjolfsson is the co-author of Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT.
Vinton Cerf
is vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Dr. Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. Dr. Cerf, with his colleague Dr. Robert Kahn, Dr. Cerf received the U.S. National Medal of Technology in 1997 for co-founding and developing the Internet. They received the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In 2005 they received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2008 they received the Japan Prize. Dr. Cerf served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007 and is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the British Computer Society, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from 19 universities.
The Honorable Tom Davis
is a director in Deloitte LLP's Federal Government Services Group where he advises clients on major trends, opportunities and challenges facing the federal government, with a focus on technology innovation and government transformation. Through 31 years of public service, Mr. Davis has been at the forefront of creative improvement to governmental operations. He served on the Fairfax, Virginia Board of Supervisors for 15 years, including three as chairman, when Fairfax was recognized as the nation's best financially managed county. Mr. Davis earned national recognition as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2000 and 2002, when he was instrumental in maintaining his party's majority in the House of Representatives and driving value for taxpayers. He was a leader on promoting the President's Management Agenda and maximizing the performance of government agencies. Mr. Davis has also served as a co-chair of the Information Technology Working Group, which promotes a better understanding among members of Congress of important issues in the computer and technology industries. After the 2002 election, he was named chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, gaining national prominence once again by chairing hearings on the use of performance enhancing substances in professional sports. Other notable accomplishments include his hard-hitting but objective report on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina; his sponsorship of legislation giving the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco; and passage of the National Capital Transportation Amendments Act, which authorizes much-needed capital reinvestment in the Washington Metro system.
The Honorable Al Gore
is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a partnership that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. He is also co-founder and chairman of Current TV, an Emmy Award-winning, independent cable and satellite television news and information network based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. In addition, Mr. Gore is a senior partner with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a member of the board of directors of Apple and senior adviser to Google. Mr. Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit focused on solutions to the climate crisis. Mr. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. During the Administration, Mr. Gore was a central member of President Clinton's economic team. He served as President of the Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, and Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary and is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."
Susan Graham
is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She received the A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University and the Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. Her research spans many aspects of programming language implementation, software tools, software development environments, and high-performance computing. Dr. Graham is a member the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Among her awards are the ACM SIGPLAN Career Programming Language Achievement Award (2000), the ACM Distinguished Service Award (2006), the Harvard Medal (2008), the IEEE von Neumann Medal (2009), the Berkeley Citation (2009), and the ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy award (2011). She serves on the Harvard Corporation, the Board of Trustees of Cal Performances, and the Board of Overseers of the Curtis School of Music. Dr. Graham is the vice-Chair of the Computing Community Consortium.
Eric Horvitz
is a distinguished scientist and deputy managing director at Microsoft Research. He has pursued solutions to theoretical and practical challenges with machine learning and intelligence, with a focus on methods for enhancing human decisions. His contributions include advances in principles of automated reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, and fielded applications in healthcare, transportation, aerospace, ecommerce, and operating systems. Dr. Horvitz has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He currently serves on the NSF Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Advisory Board. He received his Ph.D. and M.D. degrees at Stanford University.
Farnam Jahanian
serves as the National Science Foundation Assistant Director for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate, and as co-chair of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology. Dr. Jahanian guides CISE in its mission to uphold the nation's leadership in computer and information science and engineering through its support for fundamental and transformative advances that are key drivers of economic competitiveness and crucial to achieving national priorities. In this role, he directs programs and initiatives that support ambitious long-term research, foster broad interdisciplinary collaborations, and contribute to the development of a computing and information technology workforce with skills essential to succeed in the increasingly competitive, global market. He is on leave from the University of Michigan, where he holds the Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professorship and served as Chair for Computer Science and Engineering from 2007 – 2011 and as Director of the Software Systems Laboratory from 1997 – 2000. His research on Internet infrastructure security formed the basis for the Internet security company Arbor Networks, which he co-founded in 2001 and served as Chairman until its acquisition in 2010. Dr. Jahanian holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Thomas Kalil
is currently serving as the deputy director for policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and senior advisor for science, technology and innovation for the National Economic Council. From 2001 to 2008, Mr. Kalil was Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. He was responsible for developing major new multi-disciplinary research and education initiatives at the intersection of information technology, nanotechnology, microsystems, and biology. He also conceived and launched a program called "Big Ideas @ Berkeley," which provides support for multidisciplinary teams of Berkeley students that are interested in addressing economic and societal challenges such as clean energy, safe drinking water, and poverty alleviation. Previously, Mr. Kalil served as the Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Technology and Economic Policy, and the deputy director of the White House National Economic Council. He led a number of White House technology initiatives, such as the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the Next Generation Internet, bridging the digital divide, e-learning, increasing funding for long-term information technology research, making IT more accessible to people with disabilities, and addressing the growing imbalance between support for biomedical research and for the physical sciences and engineering.
David Keyes
Formerly the Fu Foundation Chair of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, is the inaugural dean of the Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering Division at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. With backgrounds in engineering, applied mathematics, and computer science, Dr. Keyes works at the algorithmic interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of partial differential equations, across a variety of applications. Newton-Krylov-Schwarz parallel implicit methods, introduced in a 1993 paper, are now widely used throughout computational physics and engineering and scale to the edge of today's distributed memory multiprocessors. Dr. Keyes, who earned a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering at Princeton and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Harvard, is a former NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Presidential Young Investigator grantee, a Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and has been awarded ACM's Gordon Bell Prize and IEEE's Sidney Fernbach Prize. He has edited several US federal agency reports on high performance computing and has served on the advisory committees of the Office of CyberInfrastructure and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of NSF. In 2011, SIAM awarded Dr. Keyes its Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession for his leadership and advocacy of high performance computing in science and engineering.
Kevin Knight
is a senior research scientist and fellow at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USC), and a research professor in USC's Computer Science Department. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. Dr. Knight's research interests include natural language processing, machine translation, and decipherment. In 2001, he co-founded Language Weaver, Inc., which provides commercial machine translation solutions to business and government customers. In 2011, he served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Dr. Knight has taught computer science courses at USC for more than fifteen years, and he led an influential intensive workshop on machine translation at Johns Hopkins University. He has authored over 70 research papers on natural language processing, including several best paper awards. Together with Elaine Rich, Dr. Knight also co-authored the widely adopted textbook, Artificial Intelligence (McGraw-Hill).
Tom Lange
has a BSChE degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He joined The Procter & Gamble Company in May 1978 as a product technical engineer. In his first assignment, while supporting Jif Peanut Butter Manufacturing, Mr. Lange built models of Cyclone Separators and Fluid Bed Roasters, beginning a 34-year career in Modeling and Simulation. Through Test Market and National rollout with plant start-ups in Duncan Hines Ready-to-Serve Chocolate Chip Cookies, Consumer Acceptance, Formulation, and Process models became part of the assignment. In 1987, Mr. Lange moved to Baby Diapers with both quality and reliability responsibilities that were heavily Modeling and Simulation-based. In 1999, he founded the MS&A (Modeling, Simulation and Analysis) Department at P&G Company. He began his current role, in 2004, as the Director, Modeling & Simulation, R&D, with the Global Capability Organization forming in 2008. In this role, Mr. Lange leads P&G's Modeling & Simulation efforts ranging from Computational Chemistry & Biology, Consumer Modeling, to Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) Structural & Dynamic, Fluids & Thermal, Dynamics & Controls, Chemical Systems, Empirical & Optimization, Should Cost Analysis, Reliability, Throughput and Supply Chain Analysis.
Edward Lazowska
holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Lazowska received his A.B. from Brown University in 1972 and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1977, when he joined the University of Washington faculty. His research and teaching concern the design, implementation, and analysis of high performance computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive science. Dr. Lazowska is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He recently co-chaired (with David E. Shaw) the Working Group of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology charged with reviewing the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program. He is the chair of the Computing Community Consortium.
Peter Lee
Peter Lee is a distinguished scientist and the managing director of Microsoft Research in Redmond. In this role, Dr. Lee is regularly called upon as an analyst and contributor in research, education, and policy making. Before he joined Microsoft, he held key positions in both government and academia. His most recent position was at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he challenged conventional Department
of Defense (DoD) approaches to computer science. Prior to joining DARPA, Peter was head of Carnegie Mellon's (CMU) nationally top-ranked computer science department and had previously served as the university's vice provost for research. At CMU, he carried out research in software reliability, program analysis, security, and language design. He is well- known for his development of techniques for enhanced software security, and has tackled problems as diverse as programming for large-scale modular robotics systems and shape analysis for C programs. Dr. Lee is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and former chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA). He is a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council (NRC), and was the principal investigator for the Computing Community Consortium's (CCC) Computing Innovation Fellows Program, which provided postdoctoral fellowships for top Ph.D.s in the computing field. Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Computer Sciences, also from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Elizabeth Mynatt
is a professor of Interactive Computing and the executive director of Georgia Tech's Institute for People and Technology. The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) serves as a catalyst for research activities that pursue transformations in healthcare, media, education, and humanitarian systems by integrating advances in human-centered design, system science and engineering, policy, and management. Dr. Mynatt is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of ubiquitous computing, personal health informatics, computer-supported collaborative work and human-computer interface design. Named Top Woman Innovator in Technology by Atlanta Woman Magazine in 2005, Dr. Mynatt has created new technologies that support the independence and quality of life of older adults "aging in place," that help people manage diabetes, and that increase creative collaboration in workplaces. Dr. Mynatt is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy, a Sloan and Kavli research fellow, and serves on Microsoft Research's Technical Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Computing Community Consortium, an NSF-sponsored effort to engage the computing research community in envisioning more audacious research challenges. Dr. Mynatt earned her Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in computer science from North Carolina State University and her Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech.
Helen Nissenbaum
is professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University, where she is also senior faculty fellow of the Information Law Institute. Her areas of expertise span social, ethical, and political implications of information technology and digital media. Dr. Nissenbaum's research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy, politics, law, media studies, information studies, and computer science. She has written and edited four books, including Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, which was published in 2010 by Stanford University Press. The National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Ford Foundation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator have supported her work on privacy, trust online, and security, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design, including search engines, digital games, facial recognition technology, and health information systems. Dr. Nissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Shwetak Patel
is an assistant professor in the departments of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Sensor-enabled Embedded Systems, and User Interface Technology. His particular focus is on developing easy- to-deploy sensing technologies and approaches for activity recognition and energy monitoring applications. He is also exploring novel interaction techniques, mobile sensing systems, and wireless sensor platforms. Dr. Patel was also a founder of Zensi, Inc., a residential energy sensing and feedback company, which was acquired by Belkin, Inc in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008 and B.S. in Computer Science in 2003. Dr. Patel was a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2011. He received the TR-35 award in 2009, was named top innovator of the year by Seattle Business Magazine in 2010, was named Newsmaker of the year by Seattle Business Journal in 2010, was named most influential person by Seattle Magazine in 2011, and was a recipient of the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship in 2011. His past work was also honored by the New York Times as a top technology of the year in 2005.
Stefan Savage
is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Applied History from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Savage's research interests lie at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and computer security, with a current focus on both embedded security and the economics of cybercrime. He currently serves as director of UCSD's Center for Network Systems (CNS) and as co-director for the Cooperative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses (CCIED), a joint effort between UCSD and the International Computer Science Institute.
William Scherlis
is a professor in the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University, director of the SCS Institute for Software Research, and founding director of CMU's Ph.D. Program in Software Engineering. His research relates to software assurance, software analysis, and assured safe concurrency. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University and an A.B. at Harvard University. Dr. Scherlis chaired the NRC study committee on defense software producibility, which released the report Critical Code: Software Producibility for Defense. He testified before Congress on IT innovation and, previously, regarding the Federal CIO. He has led or participated in national studies related to cybersecurity, e-government, crisis response, analyst information management, the Ada language, and health care informatics. He served at DARPA for six years, departing in 1993, with responsibilities related to research and strategy in software technology, cybersecurity, the initiation of the high performance computing and communications (HPCC) program (now NITRD), and other topics. Dr. Scherlis served as program chair for technical conferences including the ACM Foundations of Software Engineering Symposium. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
George Strawn
is the director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. He also serves as the co-chair of the NITRD Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. Dr. Strawn is on assignment to the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Strawn was the National Science Foundation (NSF) Chief Information Officer (CIO). As the CIO for NSF, he guided the agency in the development and design of innovative information technology, working to enable the NSF staff and the international community of scientists, engineers, and educators to pursue new methods of scientific communication, collaboration, and decision-making. Prior to his appointment as NSF CIO, Dr. Strawn served as the executive officer of the NSF directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and as acting assistant director for CISE. Previously, Dr. Strawn served as the director of the CISE Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research, where he led NSF's efforts in the Presidential Next Generation Internet Initiative. Prior to coming to NSF, Dr. Strawn was a Computer Science faculty member at Iowa State University. He also served there as director of the ISU Computation Center and chair of the ISU Computer Science Department. Dr. Strawn received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Iowa State University and his B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics and Physics from Cornell College.
Alexander Szalay
is the Alumni Centennial Professor of Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University, and professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is a cosmologist, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. With Jim Gray, he architected the Science Archive of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He was the project director of the NSF-funded National Virtual Observatory. He has written papers from theoretical cosmology to observational astronomy, spatial statistics and computer science. He is a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received an Alexander Von Humboldt Award in Physical Sciences, in 2007 the Microsoft Jim Gray Award. In 2008 he became Doctor Honoris Clausa of the Eötvös University.
Sebastian Thrun
is a research professor at Stanford University, and a Google Fellow. He taught the largest online class ever taught, with 160,000 students, and he is now starting a new university, Udacity. He is also known for winning the DARPA Grand Challenge and leading the development of Google's self-driving car. He was elected into the National Academy of Engineering and the German Academy of Sciences while still in his 30s. More recently, Fast Company named him the 5th most creative person in business.
Charles Vest
is president of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and formerly at the University of Michigan, he served on the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1994-2008, and chaired the President's Committee on the Redesign of the Space Station and the Secretary of Energy's Task force on the Future of Science at DOE. He was a member of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. He was vice chair of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness
for seven years, has served on the boards of DuPont and IBM, and was awarded the 2006 National Medal of Technology by President George W. Bush and the 2011 Vannevar Bush Award from the NSF. He is the author of a book on holographic interferometry and two books on higher education.
Jeannette Wing
is the President's Professor of Computer Science and head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2007-2010 she was the assistant director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Wing's general research interests are in the areas of trustworthy computing, specification and verification, concurrent and distributed systems, programming languages, and software engineering. Her current interests are on the foundations of trustworthy computing, with a focus on the science of security and privacy. Dr. Wing was or is on the editorial board of twelve journals. She is a member of Computing Research Association Board and the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. She has been a member of many other advisory boards, including the Networking and Information Technology (NITRD) Technical Advisory Group to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the National Academies of Sciences' Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, ACM Council, the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Board, NSF's CISE Advisory Committee,
the Intel Research Pittsburgh's Advisory Board, and the Sloan Research Fellowships Program Committee. She served as co-chair of NITRD from 2007-2010. She received the CRA Distinguished Service Award in 2011. She is a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
Katherine Yelick
is the co-author of two books and more than 100
refereed technical papers on parallel languages, compilers, algorithms, libraries, architecture, and storage. She co-invented the UPC and Titanium languages and demonstrated their applicability across computer architectures through the use of novel runtime and compilation methods. She also co- developed techniques for self-tuning numerical libraries, including the first self-tuned library for sparse matrix kernels which automatically adapt the code to properties of the matrix structure and machine. Her work includes performance analysis and modeling as well as optimization techniques for memory hierarchies, multicore processors, communication libraries, and processor accelerators. She has worked with interdisciplinary teams on application scaling, and her own applications work includes parallelization of a model for blood flow in the heart. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has been a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley since 1991, with a joint research appointment at Berkeley Lab since 1996. She has received multiple research and teaching awards and is a member of the California Council on Science and Technology, a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and a member of the National Academies committee on Sustaining Growth in Computing Performance.
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