Valerie E. Taylor (May 24, 1963- ) is an African American computer scientist who was a professor at Texas A&M University working on 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. Currently, she is a Director at Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
In 2013, Dr. Taylor was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for " for contributions to "performance enhancement of parallel computing applications", and in 2016 as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. for her "leadership in broadening participation in computing"
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 is 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.
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External links
- "Valerie Elaine Taylor". Microsoft Academic Search. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
- Taylor, Valerie. "Women of Color in Computing". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
- "Notable Women in Computing".
- The History Makers interview with Valerie Taylor 8/14/2012
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