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.
Harchol-Balter has a long list of accomplished PhD students who 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.