BIO

Mor Harchol-Balter is the Associate Department Head of Graduate Education for the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her doctorate from the Computer Science department at the University of California at Berkeley under the direction of Manuel Blum. She is a recipient of the McCandless Chair, the NSF CAREER award, the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Mathematical Sciences, multiple best paper awards, and several teaching awards, including the Herbert A. Simon Award for Teaching Excellence. Most recently she served as Technical Program Chair for SIGMETRICS 2007 and for QEST 2007.

Professor Harchol-Balter is heavily involved in the ACM SIGMETRICS research community. Her work focuses on designing new scheduling/resource allocation policies for various distributed computer systems including Web servers, supercomputing farms, networks of workstations, and database systems. Her work spans both queueing analysis and implementation and emphasizes integrating measured workload distributions into the problem solution.