Presenter

Valerie Taylor is the Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and a Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. Her research is in high-performance computing, with a focus on performance analysis, modeling and tuning of parallel, scientific applications using AI. Her current work is on energy efficient methods.

Prior to joining Argonne, she was 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. In 2003, she joined Texas A&M University as the Department Head of CSE, where she remained in that position until 2011. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Valerie Taylor was a member of the faculty in the EECS Department at Northwestern University for eleven years. She is also the CEO and President of the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT), for which she is a co-founder.

Valerie Taylor is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, and AAAS Fellow.