Dr. Mor Harchol Balter

Biography

Mor Harchol-Balter is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, affiliated with the Tepper School of Business. He served as the Associate Department Head of Computer Science from 2008 to 2011. Mor earned his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley under Manuel Blum in 1996, followed by a NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT in Mathematical Sciences. He has received numerous accolades, including the McCandless Chair, the NSF CAREER award, and multiple teaching and paper awards, as well as the Herbert Simon Award for Teaching Excellence. An active participant in the ACM SIGMETRICS research community, he has served as the Technical Program Chair for SIGMETRICS in 2007 and as the General Chair in 2013. His research focuses on designing innovative resource allocation policies, including load balancing, power management, and scheduling policies for server farms and distributed systems. He is noted for his work in queuing analysis and system implementations, and has co-authored around 100 publications in leading journals and conferences, including the textbook 'Performance Analysis Design of Computer Systems' published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Mor has also given keynote talks at top conferences and has supervised several PhD students, many of whom are now professors at prestigious academic institutions.

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