Name Valerie Taylor | Role Computer scientist | |
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Born May 24, 1963
Chicago, Illinois ( 1963-05-24 ) Institutions Texas A&M University, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Northwestern University, professor of electrical and computer engineering Alma mater Purdue University, B.S., computer and electrical engineering 1985; M.S., electrical engineering, 1986; University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science, 1991 Known for Work in high performance computing Notable awards Pathbreaker Award from the Women in Leadership at Northwestern University; Hewlett Packard Harriet B. Rigas Education Award; A. Nico Habermann Award, Computing Research Association; Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture; Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing (Q21020802); MOBE Influencers and Innovators of the Internet and Technology | ||
Valerie E. Taylor (May 24, 1963- ) is an African American computer science professor at Texas A&M University who works in high performance computing. From 2003 until 2011, she was the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She most recently served as the senior associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Engineering and a Regents Professor and the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Taylor is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. She has received numerous awards for distinguished research and leadership and authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in the area of high performance computing, with a focus on performance analysis and modeling of parallel scientific applications. She is known for her work on "Prophesy," described as "a database used to collect and analyze data to predict the performance on different applications on parallel systems."
As of July 3, 2017, she will be the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
Dr. Taylor is the Executive Director of the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT). The organization seeks to develop the participation of minorities and people with disabilities in the IT workforce in the United States.
Dr. Taylor is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.