Dr. Patricia Teller

Teller received her B.A. (magna cum laude), M.S., and Ph.D. (1991) from New York University (NYU). Her Ph.D. advisors were Drs. Allan Gottlieb and Ralph Grishman. While working on her dissertation, which is entitled "Translation-Lookaside Buffer Consistency in Highly-Parallel Shared-Memory Multiprocessors," she was a research scientist at NYU's Ultracomputer Research Lab and a visiting scientist at IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, where she had previously worked with IBM's RP3 research group. Before joining UTEP, Teller was a faculty member at New Mexico State University (NMSU). At NMSU, Teller graduated two Ph.D. students, Keith Bisset and Richard Oliver.

Teller joined UTEP in January 1997. She is teaching courses in parallel and distributed systems, computer architecture, operating systems, and performance evaluation. She was appointed Assistant Dean, Graduate Studies, of the College of Engineering in September 2001 (she stepped down in August 2003) and, at the same time, was awarded a CETaL (Center for Effective Teaching and Learning) Fellowship (2001-2004) in recognition of her excellent teaching. Currently Teller is working with seven Ph.D. students and six Master's students.

Currently Teller's research projects involve:

-the dynamic adaptation of applications, operating systems, and computer architectures;
-performance evaluation, modeling, and enhancements;
-parallel and distributed computing;
-computer architecture, operating systems, and simulation methodologies;
-workload characterization; and
-education.

She has over fifty technical publications. She has published five journal and over forty conference articles and has several articles in progress with her students. Teller's work has been funded by DARPA, the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, IBM, Intel Corporation (where she was a visiting summer faculty in 1996), Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA, NSF, Sandia National Laboratory, and the U.S. Army Research Office.

Teller has served as a program committee member numerous times and has been financial, tutorial, student volunteer, and poster chair for major conferences.  Currently (2003-2009) she is a member of the Steering Committee for the Supercomputing Conference series. She recently was elected to be the General Chair of SC08. In addition, Teller has served as an NSF and DOE reviewer, and NSF review panel member, and a reviewer for many different publications and conferences.  She has been invited to speak at various workshops, conferences, universities, and industrial centers; and she is a member of ACM, IEEE, Phi Beta Kappa, and an honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.  Finally, Teller is an advocate of diversity and outreach; as such, she was the elected chair (2004-2005) of the Coalition to Diversity Computing (CDC), and is now a member of the CDC's Leadership Team. In addition, Dr. Patricia Teller is an Associate Member of SPEC HPG and SPEC OSG.