Personal:
Born: 1958, Haifa, Israel
Education:
| Ph.D. | 1987 | Operations Research | Stanford University | California, USA |
| M.Sc. | 1984 | Operations Research | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
| B.Sc. | 1983 | Mathematics | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
Major academic appointments:
2007-now | Vigevani Professor of Statistics |
1996-now | Professor |
1992-1996 | Associate Professor (tenure: 1993) |
School of Management, Department of Operations Research and Department of Statistics
| 1991-1995 | Associate Professor |
| 1987-1991 | Assistant Professor |
Some Mentionables:
| Vigevani Chair in Statistics: | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 2007-now | Israel |
| Stieltjes Visiting Professor: | The Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics | 2005 | The Netherlands |
Alon Fellowship for Excelling young scientists: | The Council for Higher Education | 1992-1995 | Israel |
Associate Editor:
| 2021-now | Stochastic Models |
| 2014-now | Statistics and Probability Letters |
| 1994-now | Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications |
| 1999-2017 | Operations Research Letters |
| 2004-2013 | Mathematics of Operations Research |
| 1995-2005 | Operations Research |
Major administrative and professional duties:
2001-2005 | Department Chair | Israel | ||
1998-2001 | Chair (equivalent to vice dean) | Committee for Research and Infrastructure | Israel |
Research interests:
Applied probability, operations research, queueing theory, stochastic storage processes .
Professional affiliations:
Research grants:
US - Israel Binational Science Foundation , grant No. 92-00035, 1993-1997, joint with Ward Whitt (AT&T, USA), title: Stochastic Fluid Networks,, total support - $42,500.
The Israel Science Foundation , grant No. 372/93, 1993-1996, joint with David Assaf (Dept. of Statistics, Hebrew University), title: Optimal Control of Stochastic and Deterministic Fluid Networks, total support - $60,000.
The Denmark/Israel Research Award, 1994-1995, joint with Soren Asmussen (then at Univ. of Aalborg, DK) and David Perry (University of Haifa), supports travel between Denmark and Israel.
The Israel Science Foundation , grant No. 794/97, 1997-2000, single investigator, title: Stochastic Storage Networks, total support: $66,800.
The Volkswagen Foundation (via The Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Niedersachsen), 2000-2002, joint with Wolfgang Stadje (University of Osnabrueck, Germany), title: Stochastic Storage Systems in a Random Environment, total support - DM87,000.
The Israel Science Foundation , grant No. 935/ 0, 2000-2003, single investigator, title: Stochastic Storage Models and Networks, Markov Modulation and Martingale Methods, total support: $65,140.
INTAS (funded by the European community), project 265, 2001-2003, joint among teams from several European countries and Israel, Israeli team: Adam Shwartz (Technion) and Offer Kella, title: Mathematics of Stochastic Networks, total support: EU90,000.
The Israel Science Foundation , grant No. 819/ 03, 2003-2006, single investigator, title: Stochastic Storage Models and Networks in a Random Environment, total support: $87,270.
The Volkswagen Foundation (via The Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Niedersachsen), 2004-2006, joint with Wolfgang Stadje (University of Osnabrueck, Germany), title: Reflected Networks, Stability and Martingale Analysis, total support - EU88,000.
The Israel Science Foundation , grant No. 964/06, 2006-2009, single investigator, title: Storage Models and Networks with Stochastic Reflecting Constraints, total support: $84,000.
The Israel Science Foundation , grant No. 434/09, 2009-2012, single investigator, title: Stochastic storage models and networks with an emphasis on Markov modulation, stochastic constraints and applications to growth collapse models, total support: $60,000.
The Israel Science Foundation , grant No. 1462/13, 2013-2017, single investigator, title: Tools and models for stochastic storage models and networks, total support: $120,000.
The Israel Science Foundation , grant No. 1462/13, 2013-2017, single investigator, title: Tools and models for stochastic storage models and networks, total support: $120,000.
The Israel Science Foundation , grant No. 1647/17, 2017-2021, single investigator, title: Stochastic Storage Systems: Theory and Applications, total support: $140,000.