Katherine Yelick

Katherine "Kathy" Anne Yelick, an American computer scientist, is the vice chancellor for research and the Robert S. Pepper Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she was Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences from 2010–2019. In May 2026, the University of California Board of Regents approved Yelick as the next director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; her appointment begins on July 1, 2026.