Dr. Ann Marie Maynard is the Program Director of the IBM Austin Center
for Advanced Studies, and a Researcher and Senior Engineer at IBM's
Austin Research Laboratory. She received her PhD in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992 under Dan Siewiorek.
Her B.S. in Electrical Engineering was earned at Polytechnic University of
New York (a.k.a. "Brooklyn Poly").
During her graduate school years, Dr. Maynard worked on several research
projects at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey relating to
the design and performance analysis of high performance and multiprocessor
systems. At NASA Langley Research Center, she worked on the validation of
SIFT, a highly reliable multiprocessor system for aircraft control.
Dr. Maynard has been at IBM Austin since 1992. Her research interests
have included analytic modeling of computer architectures and memory
subsystems, full system and trace-driven simulation, workload
characterization, and system-level hardware performance
analysis of future system designs for commercial markets.
Her expertise includes memory subsystem performance. She adds usability engineering
to her current interests.
Dr. Maynard's awards have included the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for RS/6000 Memory Subsystem Analysis (Nov. 1994), the IBM Technical Author Recognition Award (Jan 1995), a First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award (June 1999), the IBM Research Division Award - "SimOS-PPC Development" (October 2000), and the 2003 Trailblazer Award from the University of Texas at Austin (October 2003), in addition to new, recent Patents in the works. Her research has been published by ASPLOS, the IBM Journal of Research and Development, and others. She was the co-founder and Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Workload Characterization from 1998-2004, and has co-edited two books on workload characterization. A well-rounded individual, her contributions to the Austin community has also been recognized via a 2005 YWCA Woman of the Year Award in Arts. She is a member of ACM.
Dr. Ann Marie Maynard