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.