Mary Katherine Vernon (born 1953) is an American

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who works as a professor of computer science and

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at the

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. Her research concerns high-performance computer architecture and

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. Vernon graduated from the

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in 1975 with a B.S. in

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, and earned her Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA in 1983 under the supervision of

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. She was named a

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of the

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in 1996 "for fundamental contributions to performance analysis of parallel computer architectures and for leadership in the computing research community." In 2019, she won the ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement award for "contributions to analytic performance modeling techniques and to analytic design of a wide range of impactful computer and communication system architectures."

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