VALERIE E. TAYLOR

Department Head and Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship in Engineering

Email: taylor@cse.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

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 and Engineering, 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

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, Benchun Duan and Valerie Taylor, An OpenMP Approach to Modeling Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Along Geometrically Complex Faults on CMP Systems, ICPP2009 SMECS Workshop, September 22-25, 2009, Vienna, Austria.

Xingfu Wu, Valerie Taylor, Charles Lively and Sameh Sharkawi, Performance Analysis and Optimization of Parallel Scientific Applications on CMP Clusters, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2009.

Xingfu Wu and Valerie Taylor, Using Large Page and Processor Binding to Optimize the Performance of OpenMP Scientific Applications on an IBM POWER5+ System, the 2009 International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09), Orlando, FL, July 13-16, 2009.

Sameh Sharkawi, Don DeSota, Raj Panda, Rajeev Indukuru, Stephen Stevens, Valerie Taylor, and Xingfu Wu, Performance Projection of HPC Applications Using SPEC CFP2006 Benchmarks, IEEE IPDPS'09, May 25-29, 2009.

Xingfu Wu and Valerie Taylor, Using Processor Partitioning to Evaluate the Performance of MPI, OpenMP and Hybrid Parallel Applications on Dual- and Quad-core Cray XT4 Systems, the 51st Cray User Group Conference (CUG2009), Atlanta, May 4-7 2009.

Charles Lively, Sadaf Alam, Jeffrey Vetter, and Valerie Taylor, A Methodology for Developing High Fidelity Communications Models for Large-scale Applications on Multicore Systems, the 20th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2008), IEEE Computer Society Press, Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2008, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sol, Brazil.