Mor Harchol-Balter
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Mor Harchol-Balter | |
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| Born | December 1966 (age 59) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University (undergrad), U.C. Berkeley (grad) |
| Known for | Scheduling (computing), queueing theory, Load balancing (computing), Resource allocation, Performance modeling, Power Management, Heavy tails |
| Awards | Dr. Bruce J. Nelson Endowed Chair, Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of IEEE |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science, operations research |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Manuel Blum |
| Doctoral students | |
| Website | www |
Mor Harchol-Balter is the Bruce J. Nelson Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She is known for her work on queueing theory, scheduling and resource allocation, load balancing, data center power management, and heavy-tailed workloads.
Harchol-Balter completed her PhD in 1996 at University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Manuel Blum. From 1997 to 1999, she was supported by the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Mathematical Sciences at MIT, under the direction of Tom Leighton. Since 1999, Harchol-Balter has been a professor at CMU in the Computer Science Department.
Research
Harchol-Balter's research focuses on designing new resource allocation policies, including load balancing policies, scheduling policies, and power management policies, for multi-server, distributed systems. She is the author of a popular textbook, Performance Analysis and Design of Computer Systems, published by Cambridge University Press, which bridges Operations Research and Computer Science.
Notable PhD students of Harchol-Balter include: Adam Wierman, Bianca Schroeder, Takayuki Osogami, David McWherter, Varun Gupta, Anshul Gandhi, Sherwin Doroudi, Timothy Zhu, Kristy Gardner, Ziv Scully, Benjamin Berg, and Isaac Grosof.
