VALERIE E. TAYLOR
Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor
Email: taylor@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-2497
Office: HRBB 517
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
- IEEE Fellow, 2013
- Regents Professor, Texas A&M University System Board of
Regents, 2011-2012
- 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
- Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor, Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2004 - present
- Department Head and Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor, Department
of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2004
- 2011
- 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
- Executive Director, Center for Minorities and People with
Disabilities in Information Technology (CMD-IT, 2011 - present
- Board of Directors Member, Computing Research Association
(CRA), 2008 - present
- 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, "Performance Modeling of Hybrid
MPI/OpenMP Scientific Applications on Large-scale Multicore
Supercomputers," accepted to be published in Journal of Computer
and System Sciences, 2012.
Charles Lively, Xingfu Wu, Valerie Taylor, Shirley Moore,
Hung-Ching Chang, Chun-Yi Su and Kirk Cameron, "Power-Aware
Predictive Models of Hybrid (MPI/OpenMP) Scientific Applications on
Multicore Systems," Computer Science – Research and
Development, Vol. 27, No. 4, Springer, 2012, pp. 245-253.
Sameh Sharkawi, Don DeSota, Raj Panda, Stephen Stevens, Valerie
Taylor, and Xingfu Wu, "SWAPP: A
Framework for Performance Projections of HPC Applications,"
IEEE IPDPS2012 Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing,
May 2012.
Xingfu Wu and Valerie Taylor, "Performance
Characteristics of Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Implementations of NAS
Parallel Benchmarks SP and BT on Large-Scale Multicore
Clusters," The Computer Journal, Volume 55 Issue 2,
February 2012, pp. 154-167.