Valerie Elaine Taylor
Personal Information
Born: 1963
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: Black
Education
Purdue Univerity Elmore Family School of Electrical & Computer Engineering BS Computer Science & Electrical Engineering 1985 MS Electrical Engineering 1986; UC Berkeley PhD Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 1991
Professional Life
Field of Study: Computer Science
Institution/Corporation: Argonne National Laboratory; Northwestern University; Texas A&M University
Degrees & Memberships: Member: Fellow Association for Computing Machinery (ACM 2016); Fellow IEEE (2013); Board of Directors Computing Research Association
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 2001 Pathbreaker Award Women in Leadership at Northwestern University; 2001 Harriet B. Rigas Education Award Hewlett Packard; 2002 A. Nico Haberman Award Computing Research Association; Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture; 2005 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award; 1993 NSF National Young Investigator Award; 2019 Argonne Distinguished Fellow; 2002 Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award UC Berkeley; MOBE Influencers & Innovators of the Internet & Technology; AccessComputing Capacity Building Award; 2018 OECE Recipient Elmore Family School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Achievements: "researches performance analysis power analysis & resiliency; co-founder Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB); CEO & President of the Center for Minorities & People with Disabilities in IT (CMB-IT) a non-profit committed to diversifying computer technology; was funded by NSF for ""OptiPuter"" & ""New Approaches to Human Potential Realization Through Information Technology Research"" & funded by NASA for ""Nanoelectronics"""