Presenter

Valerie Taylor is 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. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Dr. Taylor was a member of the faculty in the EECS Department at Northwestern University. She has authored or co-authored over 100 papers in the area of HPC. She is also the Executive Director of the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT). Dr. Taylor is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of the following awards: 2001 IEEE Harriet B. Rigas Award for contributions in engineering education, the 2002 Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni from the University of California at Berkeley, the 2002 CRA Nico Habermann Award for increasing the diversity in computing, and the 2005 Tapia Achievement Award.