Gad is a professor of Operations Informations and Decisions,at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He teaches several operations courses, as well as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on operations management as part of a faculty project on Udemy. Gad was named the 2014 Alumni Professor of the Year and received the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award at Kellogg in 2009; he was recently named one of the world’s top 40 business school professors under the age of 40 by Poets and Quants.
Gad earned his PhD in economics from Columbia University, and his MS and BS from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.