Her research concerns high-performance computer architecture and streaming media.
[1] Vernon graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1975 with a B.S.
in chemistry,[2] and earned her Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA in 1983 under the supervision of Gerald Estrin.
"[4] 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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