Valerie Taylor (computer scientist)

Valerie Taylor

Valerie Taylor (born May 24, 1963 in Chicago ) is an American computer scientist and university professor . She is the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Argonne National Laboratory . Her research focuses on performance analysis and modeling parallel scientific applications.

life and work

Taylor graduated from Purdue University , where she received her bachelor's degree in computer and electrical engineering in 1985 and her master's degree in electrical engineering in 1986 . She continued her education at the University of California at Berkeley , where she completed her doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science under David Messerschmidt in 1991 . She has a patent for her dissertation on sparse matrices . That same year, she became an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern Universitywhere she became associate professor in 1997 and full professor in 2002. In 2003 she went to Texas A&M University to head the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering , where she was appointed Stewart & Stevenson Professor. In 2004 she became Regents Professor and Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She worked on "Prophesy", a database in which data is collected and analyzed in order to predict the performance of different applications on parallel systems. During her tenure on the faculty at Northwestern University and Texas A&M University, she worked with Argonne National Laboratory, including a 2011 summer sabbatical. In 2017, she became director of the math and science division at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois.

Taylor is the CEO and President of the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology (CMD-IT) . The organization is committed to promoting the participation of minorities and people with disabilities in the IT workforce in the United States.

Awards (selection)

Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing
Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award, University of California, Berkeley
MOBE Influencers and Innovators of the Internet and Technology
Hewlett-Packard Harriet B. Rigas Education Award
Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer
2002: A. Nico Habermann Award
AccessComputing Capacity Building Award
2013: fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2016: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
2019: Argonne Distinguished Fellow

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personal data
SURNAME	Taylor, Valerie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American computer scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago