Taylor Groves

Contact Info
Taylor Groves
Department of Computer Science
University of New Mexico
Personal Website
Email: tgroves AT unm DOT edu
Profile
I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at the University of New Mexico. I work with Dr. Dorian Arnold in the Scalable Systems Lab. I am also a year-round student intern at Sandia National Laboratories, where I work with Dr. Ryan Grant.
Research Interests
Modern high performance systems are composed of large core counts, commonly characterized by bulk synchronous parallel applications. These environments create patterns of over and under-utilization in the network and memory subsystems. The focus of our work is improving system run time and power efficiency, through intelligent management of network resources. This research ranges from the development of infrastructure to support optimal application bootstrapping to best-practice solutions for monitoring high performance networks. Most recently, our research examines how existing power saving techniques may be extended to find additional savings on nodes and within the network fabric. Additional interests includes work on monitoring and overlay networks such as MRNet.
Education
Ph.D Student, Computer Science. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque (NM), USA. 2016 (Expected).
Master in Computer Science. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque (NM), USA. 2012.
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science. Texas State University. San Marcos (TX), USA 2009
Experience
Year Round Intern, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (2014 - Current).
Graduate Research Assistant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (2010 - 2014).
Summer Intern, Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA (2013)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (2009).
Campus Ambassador -- Intern, Sun Microsystems, San Marcos, TX (2007-2009)
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX (2008-2009)
QA Development, Kulabyte, San Marcos, TX (2006-2009)
Projects
Push-based, on-switch data collection for Yahoo!, using the OpenTSDB framework.
Development of interface for MRNet user defined, distributed data store.
Integration of LIBI into the MRNet framework.
Performance modeling of Tree Based Overlay Network, collectives.
Comparison of Linux Schedulers (BFS and CFS) (Term Project - University of New Mexico)
Stupid Routing is Smart - (Term Project - University of New Mexico)
Simulating Delay Tolerant Networks at Texas State University.
Teaching
I was a teaching assistant for UNM CS's Intermediate Java course, providing instruction and material for labs in 2009.
Honors and Awards
Undergraduate Research Excellence (2009)
Dean's List (2008, 2009)
North American CA of the month (March 2009)
Service Award - Sigma Chi Sigma (2008, 2009
Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America (Highschool)
1st Place - Digital Animation - Texas Technology Students Association (HighSchool)
Peer Reviewed Publications
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Last modified: Monday January 05, 2015