Gal Mendelson
Assistant Professor
- Email: gmendel@ncsu.edu
- Office: Fitts-Woolard Hall NA
- Website: https://sites.google.com/view/galmendelsonshomepage/home
Gal Mendelson began as an assistant professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC State University in 2025. Before this role, he worked as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 2023 to 2025. His research focuses on the intersection of applied probability, data science, and operations research. In particular, he studies how to improve resource use and manage complex systems more effectively.
He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technion in 2020. Afterward, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2022. Furthermore, he gained industry experience at IBM Research from 2017 to 2018. Later, he worked at NVIDIA from 2020 to 2021, where he tackled new scalability challenges in data centers.
Research Interests
- Operations research
- Stochastic modeling and analysis
- Efficient and sustainable energy usage
- Data center microgrids running AI workloads
Education
| Degree | Program | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Electrical Engineering | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, | 2020 |
| M.S. | Electrical Engineering | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, | 2014 |
| B.S. | Electrical Engineering | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, | 2009 |
Awards and Honors
- 2021 | Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
- 2019 | Applied Probability Society Best Student Paper Award, INFORMS
- 2019 | Honorable Mention for the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award
