VALERIE E. TAYLOR

Department Head and Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship in Engineering

Email: taylor@cs.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-5820  Fax: 979/845-1420
Office: HRBB 305B

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1991
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1986
B.S. Computer and Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1985

RESEARCH INTERESTS

High performance computing, with particular emphasis on the performance analysis and modeling of parallel and distributed applications

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Prophesy

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

National Science Foundation, "OptiPuter," 2002-2007

NASA URETI Program, "Nanoelectronics," 2002-2007

National Science Foundation, "New Approaches to Human Potential Realization through Information Technology Research," 2000-2005

National Science Foundation, "Grid Physics Network GriPhyN) Project," 2000-2005

National Science Foundation, "Prophesy: A Performance Network for Developing a Computer Algebra," 1999-2002

AWARDS

Computing Research Association (CRA) board of directors member, 2008

Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing, 2005

Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2003-2004 / 2004-2005

MOBE Influencers and Innovators of the Internet and Technology Award, 2003

Young Outstanding Leader Award from the University of California, Berkeley Distinguished Engineering Alumni Society, 2002

CRA A. Nico Habermann Award, 2002

Hewlett Packard Harriet B. Rigas Education Award, 2001

Pathbreaker Award from the Women in Leadership at Northwestern University, 2001

National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award, 1993

EXPERIENCE

Department Head and Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2004 - present

Department Head and Stewart & Stevenson Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2003-2004

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, 2002

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, 1997-2002

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, 1991-1997

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES

General Chair of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference in Vancouver, Canada, 2002

General Co-Chair, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Symposium, 2001

Chair of the Coalition to Diversify Computing, Present

Member, Council on Climate and Diversity, Texas A&M University, Present

Member, College of Engineering Advisory Board, University of California, Berkeley, Present

Member, NSF CISE Advisory Committee, Present

Member, Executive Committee for the National Computational Science Alliance, Present

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Xingfu Wu and Valerie Taylor, "Processor Partitioning: An Experimental Performance Analysis of Parallel Applications on SMP Cluster Systems," the 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2007), Hotel@MIT, Cambridge, MA., November 19-21, 2007.

Ayodeji Coker, Valerie Taylor, "Performance and Reliability Analysis of a Scaled Multi-Switch Junction Crossbar Nanomemory and Demultiplexer," IEEE NANO Conference 2007.

Y. Zhang, F. Fowler, K. Huck, A. Malony, A. Porterfield, D. Reed, S. Shende, V. Taylor, and X. Wu, USQCD Computational Performance Studies with PERI, SciDAC 2007, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol 78, 2007.

D. Gunter, K. Huck, K. Karavanic, J. May, A. Malony, K. Mohror, S. Moore, A. Morris, S. Shende, V. Taylor, X. Wu, and Y. Zhang, "Performance Database Technology for SciDAC Applications," SciDAC 2007.

Yue Zuo, Xingfu Wu, and Valerie Taylor, "Performance Analysis and Optimization of the Regional Ocean Model System on TeraGrid," TeraGrid'07 Conference, University of Wisconsin at Madison, June 4-8, 2007.