George Bell received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College in 1982, and worked at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center for a year as a software engineer under Phil Morton. He received a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1989. His thesis concerned an ideal 2D fluid model including the Coriolis force, a simplified model of geophysical flows in the atmosphere and ocean. This was followed by a two year post doc at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, with research into ocean eddy and jet dynamics. He then detoured into industry, where he applied combinatorial optimization to telecommunication network design and process improvement in the R&D division of US West (now Qwest), the local telephone company.

Dr. Bell has published papers in a wide variety of fields, including fluid dynamics, operations research, and combinatorial game theory. His current work at Tech-X focuses on electron cooling simulations using VORPAL.