BIO

Mor Harchol-Balter is the Bruce J. Nelson Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1996, joined CMU in 1999, and served as the Head of the PhD program from 2008-2011. She is the SIG Chair for ACM SIGMETRICS (a 4-year elected position), having served as General Chair in 2013 and PC Chair in 2007. She is also a Fellow of both ACM and IEEE and was invited to give the 2026 Markov Lecture at INFORMS. She has received several teaching awards, including the Herbert A. Simon Award and Spira Teaching Award. Mor's work focuses on designing new resource allocation policies, including load balancing policies, power management policies, and scheduling policies. Mor is heavily involved in the SIGMETRICS / PERFORMANCE / INFORMS research community where her papers have received many awards (ValueTools 24, INFORMS George Nicholson Prize 22, SIGMETRICS 21, SIGMETRICS 19, PERFORMANCE 18, INFORMS APS 18, EUROSYS 16, MASCOTS 16, MICRO 10, SIGMETRICS 03, ITC 03, SIGMETRICS 96). She is the author of two popular textbooks, both published by Cambridge University Press: Performance Analysis and Design of Computer Systems (2013), which bridges Operations Research and Computer Science, and Introduction to Probability for Computing (2024).