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Mary K. Vernon
Professor of Computer Science
and Industrial Engineering
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Research Interests:
Techniques and applications of computer systems performance analysis,
high performance network protocols, networked system security,
parallel/distributed applications and architectures,
Grid and cluster job scheduling.
Ph.D.:
Computer Science,
University of California - Los Angeles,
1983.
Biography:
Mary Vernon is a
Professor of Computer Science
and Industrial Engineering
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her
research targets the development and state-of-the-art application
of computer systems performance modeling techniques that can be used
to design new near-optimal computer/communication system architectures
with known performance properties.
She has made contributions to commercial bus arbiters, cache coherence
protocols, mesh interconnection networks with wormhole routing,
the Sequent Symmetry bus design, commercial memory system design methods,
analysis of parallel shared memory system architectures,
commercial operating system semaphore architectures,
production parallel system job scheduling policies,
the design of large parallel and distributed applications,
scalable protocols for on-demand streaming,
media content delivery cost models,
customized MVA modeling techniques, LogP modeling techniques,
task graph analysis techniques, interpolation approximation techniques,
and Petri net modeling techniques.
Her current research includes development of analytic modeling methods,
high performance data delivery protocols and content distribution,
network traffic analysis and workload characterization, and
optimized chip multiprocessor hardware/software co-design.
Vernon received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985,
the ACM Fellow award in 1995
for "fundamental contributions to performance analysis of parallel computer
architectures and for leadership in the computing research community",
a UW-Madison Vilas Associate award in 2000, and the UW-Madison
Kellett Midcareer Award in 2006. She is a co-inventor on
two U.S. patents for bus arbitration protocols, and on two U.S. patents
for streaming media delivery protocols. She has co-authored over
80 technical papers, including seven award papers
(most recent: Sigcomm 2001, Infocom 2004, DIMVA 2004, 2005 USENIX Security
Symposium). She has served on the editorial boards of
the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
and the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
the 1993 NSF Blue Ribbon Panel for High Performance Computing,
the NSF CISE Advisory Board,
the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association,
on external advisory committees for various engineering colleges
and computer science departments, and as
Chair of the ACM SIGMETRICS.
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