Faculty MembersDepartment of Statistics and Operations Research |
Prof. Felix AbramovichFelix Abramovich received his Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University in 1993. He was a Research Associate at University of Bristol, UK in 1994/95 and joined the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at Tel Aviv University as a Lecturer in 1995. He is an Associate Professor since 2007. Research interests: Nonparametric regression, analysis of noisy signals. Wavelets and their applications to various statistical theoretical and applied problems. Functional data analysis. Model selection procedures. |
Prof. Yoav BenjaminiYoav Benjamini holds a B.Sc. in Physics, a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University, and a Ph.D.in Statistics from Princeton University (1981). He has been a Full Professor in Statistics and Operations Research since 2002, and has held a visiting position at the University of Pennsylvania. His research area is Statistics, both its theoretical and applied aspects. In recent years, his main area of research has been the control of the increased number of false discoveries in statistical investigations, stemming from the analysis of many problems simultaneously. Together with colleagues and students, he has been developing procedures that control this False Discovery Rate, and studying their usefulness in different areas: Research interests: Statistics: Simultaneous inference, Data Analysis and Graphical Methods; Model Selection; Applied Areas: Atmospheric sciences; Biostatistics; Quality; Risk Metrics. |
Dr. Niv BuchbinderNiv Buchbinder received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technion, 2008. From 2008 until 2010 he was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, New England at Cambridge, MA. From 2010 until 2012 he was a faculty member at the Open university of Israel. He joined the Department of Statistics and OR as a senior lecturer in 2012. His main research interests are algorithms for combinatorial problems in offline and online settings. He is also interested in algorithmic game theory problems.Research interest: Combinatorial optimization problems, Online algorithms, Algorithmic game theory. |
Prof. Ilan EshelIlan Eshel is a Professor (Emeritus) of Biomathematics in the Department of Statistics and OR. He was the first student to receive a Ph.D in Mathematics at Tel Aviv University, 1970, and had visiting positions at Stanford and Harvard, where he specialized in theoretical population biology. He joined Tel Aviv University in 1972 and has been a Full Professor since 1985. He was department chairman in the period 1989/91, served on the editorial board of scientific journals and gave invited lectures at various conferences, including a plenary address at the European conference on "Evolutionary Dynamics", Trento 1992, and an invited lecture at the European congress of Ecology, 1998. He has published more than fifty scientific research papers and several chapters in books, mainly about genetic population dynamics, population game dynamics and theoretical population biology. |
Prof. Camil FuchsCamil Fuchs received his Ph.D. degree from Tel Aviv University in 1976. His main research interests are in multivariate quality control, sampling and surveys, statistics in medicine and genetics,and social statistics. His recent research was concentrated on two main issues on which he wrote two books which appeared in 1998: the first deals with multivariate quality and process control and the second with surveys and sampling. He is a frequent visitor at the University of Wisconsin (where he spent four years), University of Michigan and other universities in the United States and Europe. He was Head of the School of Mathematical Sciences, is Editor-in-Chief of the Computational Statistics Section of the Scientific Annals of the A.I. Cuza University and a member of the National Statistical Council. |
Prof. David GilatProf. (Emeritus) David Gilat received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. He was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Columbia University during 1970-71,and joined Tel Aviv University in 1971. He was the chairman of the Department of Statistics between 1972-1975 and was a Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics/Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley during 1976-77. He has been an Associate Professor since 1988. Research interests: Probability,Stochastic Processes and Gambling Theory |
Prof. Refael HassinRefael Hassin received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Yale University, 1978. He has held visiting positions at Stanford University, IBM Almaden Research Center and Carnegie Mellon University. His main research interests are in developing approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. He has also worked on problems in network flows and the economics of queueing systems. He is a co-author of the book ``To Queue or Not to Queue: Equilibrium Behavior in Queueing Systems'' (2003). |
Dr. Ruth HellerRuth Heller joined the department in 2011 as a Senior Lecturer. Ruth received her B.Sc. in Mathematics from McGill university, her M.Sc. in Biostatistics from the University of Washington, and her Ph.D. in Statistics from Tel-Aviv University in 2008. Ruth was a Visiting Lecturer in the Statistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007-2009, and a Senior Lecturer at the Technion in 2009-2011. Ruth received grants from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and from the Israel Science Foundation. Ruth is interested in developing statistical methodology in the areas of multiple comparisons, replicability analysis and observational studies, with applications to bioinformatics and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Research interests: Multiple comparisons; Replicability analysis; Observational studies, Bioinformatics, fMRI data analysis. |
Prof. Yosef HochbergProf. (Emeritus) Yosef Hochberg received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill in 1974. He did post-doctoral work at the Highway Safety Research Center (UNC) until October 1975 when he joined the Statistics Department of Tel Aviv University as a lecturer. From Feb 79-Aug 79 he was a Research Scientist at the Institute of Research in Public Safety of Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, and from Sept 79-Jan 80 he visited New York University (NYU) as an Associate Professor. His only tenured position was at Tel Aviv University (TAU) where he has been Full Professor since 1987. During all his years at TAU he visited NYU many times as a visiting Associate and Full Professor as well as other academic institutes in the US and Europe. His main interest is in research and consulting on Multiple Comparisons and Biostatistics. He wrote a book (together with A. Tamhane) on Multiple Comparisons which was published by Wiley in 1987 and a second book (with P.H. Westfall, R.D. Tobias, D. Rom and R.D. Wolfinger) that was published by the SAS Institure in 1999. He has written 65 papers on multiple comparisons, categorical data analysis, medical applications of biostatistical methods and on other topics. |
Prof. Ehud LehrerEhud Lehrer received his B.Sc. in Mathematics, Economics and Statistics in 1979, his M.Sc. in Mathematics in 1981 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1987. After being a faculty member at Northwestern University he joined Tel Aviv University in 1991 as an Alon fellow. He has also been supported by the NSF and the BSF. Research interests: Game Theory,Probability |
Prof. Uri LibermanProf. (Emeritus) Uri Liberman received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 1974. Since then he was an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department of Stanford University and Visiting Professor at Tubingen University, Mainz University and Stanford University. He served as Dean of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences from 1998 to 2002. His research area is Mathematical Biology and especially models associated with recombination processes and map functions. |
Prof. Isaac MeilijsonIsaac Meilijson received his Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969. He joined the Department of Statistics and Operations Research in 1971, where he has been Full Professor since 1992. He was department chairman in the period 1985/7 and vice-president of the Israel Statistical Association in the period 1995/7. His research interests and publications are widely centered around Probability theory and stochastic modeling, covering theory of Statistics, stochastic Operations Research, mathematical Economics, Neural Networks and some mathematical Biology models. He serves in the editorial board of JSPI - the Journal for Statistical Planning and Inference and of REVSTAT - the Portuguese Journal of Statistics. |
Dr. Alona RavivAlona Raviv received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976. She was an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Stanford University during 1978-79. She was a Senior Teacher in the Department of Statistics and OR at Tel Aviv University from 1987 until she retired. Dr. Raviv wrote, together with Talma Leviatan, text books for introductory statistics (Probability and Statistical Inference) for Economics students (in Hebrew). Interests: Multivariate Analysis, Nonparametrical Methods, Educational Statistics |
Prof. Saharon RossetSaharon Rosset joined the department in 2007 as a Senior Lecturer. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Tel Aviv University in Mathematics and Statistics, respectively, and his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2003. From 2003 until 2007 he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research in New York, where he served as head of the KDD Professional Interest Community in 2006-2007. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the European Union. He is an Action Editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, and serves on the editorial boards of Machine Learning Journal and Technometrics. His research interests are in combining statistical, algorithmic and other considerations in developing practical solutions to problems in scientific and business domains. Interests: Statistical/Machine Learning; Data Mining; Computational Biology, in particular Statistical Genetics. |
Prof. David SchmeidlerProf. (Emeritus) David Schmeidler received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from The Hebrew University in 1969. His research interests in recent years have dealt mainly with the informational aspects of decisions under uncertainty. His other research interests have included and include cooperative and non-cooperative games, functional analysis, decisions under uncertainty, and several topics in microeconomic theory. The last-mentioned include general equilibrium, implementation, social choice, welfare and justice. He has published papers in all these areas. Prof. Schmeidler has been an invited speaker at plenary sessions of several international conferences and a member of editorial boards of several journals. |
Prof. Meir SmorodinskyProf. (Emeritus) Meir Smorodinsky obtained his Ph.D degree in mathematics at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He held a postgraduate position at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a frequent visitor to U.C Berkeley, Stanford University, Paris University, Delft Technological University and others. Research interests: Probability, Ergodic theory, Information theory,Mathematical economy. D. Ornstein and M. Smorodinsky - Ergodic Flows of Positive Entropy Can be Time Changed to Become K-Flows M. Keane and M. Smorodinsky - Bernoulli Schemes of the Same Entropy are Finitarily IsomorphicAnnals of Math. 109, 397-406 (1979). L. Dubins, J.Feldman, M.Smorodinsky, B.Tsirelson - Decreasing sequences of sigma-fields and Measure change for Brownian Motion .Annals of Prob. (1996) Vol. 2, 882-904. |
Prof. Eilon SolanEilon Solan received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1998, and then joined Kellogg Graduate School of Management as an assistant professor. He joined the department of Statistics and OR as a senior lecturer in 2000. His research is mainly on stochastic games, and he also works on stochastic processes and Markov decision processes. Research interests: Game theory, Stochastic Games. |
Prof. David M. SteinbergDavid Steinberg received his Ph. D. degree in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin and at Stanford University before joining the faculty of Tel Aviv University in 1985. He has been a Full Professor since 2006. His research interests focus on experimental design, industrial statistics, and statistical applications in seismology. He has been a regular visitor to the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement at the University of Wisconsin and represented the State of Israel at the Seismic Screening Meetings held under the auspices of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. From 2008-2010 he was Editor of the leading journnal Technometrics. Research interests: Design of Experiments, Computer Experiments, Industrial Statistics, Bayesian Smoothing, Applications in Medicine and Seismology |
Prof. Arie TamirArie Tamir received his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics in 1966, and his M.Sc. in Mathematics in 1968, from the Hebrew University. In 1973 he received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University. After visiting Northwestern University for two years, he joined Tel Aviv University in 1975. Since 1985 he has been a frequent visitor at New York University. He has also held short visiting positions at the University of Texas and IBM Almaden Research Center. His research has been partially supported by NSF. He is currently involved in a joint research project with US scientists on aggregation methods in large scale location problems. Research interests: Operations Research, Discrete Optimization,Design and analysis of algorithms in location theory |
Prof. Marc TeboulleMarc Teboulle received his D.Sc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1985. He was a post-doctoral fellow from 1985 to 1987 at Dalhousie University. He was then associated with the University of Maryland during the period 1987-1996 where he joined the Department of Mathematics as an Assistant Professor in 1987, becoming full Professor in 1995. He had visiting positions in various institutions in France and the USA. He joined Tel Aviv University in 1994, and has been a full Professor since 1996. His research interests are in the area of nonlinear optimization theory and its applications to engineering and management sciences and he has published numerous papers in these areas. He serves on the editorial board of two leading scientific journals in the field of Operations Research and has given invited lectures at many International conferences. Over the last decade he has been the principal investigator on several research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the US Air Force and the Israel Ministry of Science. Research interests: Optimization theory including Non-smooth optimization and Non-convex optimization, Algorithms for constrained nonlinear optimization including: dual methods and proximal and augmented Lagrangian methods, Convex Analysis, Semidefinite programming, Variational Inequalities and Applications of these areas in engineering problems. |
Prof. Uri YechialiProfessor (Emeritus) Uri Yechiali received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University, New York, in 1969, and was appointed Assistant Professor at New York University. He joined Tel Aviv University as a Senior Lecturer in 1971. Over the years he has held Visiting Professor positions at NYU and Columbia Universities, at Inria (France) and was awarded the Beta Chair at Eurandom (The Netherlands). Professor Yechiali served on the Editorial Boards of three international scientific journals and has given numerous invited lectures at scientific meetings on various topics, mainly in the areas of Queueing Theory, Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks, and Reliability. During his academic career he has supervised 38 M.Sc. (with thesis) and 9 Ph.D. students, most of whom now hold prestigious positions in leading academic institutions. Prof. Yechiali served as a consultant to AT&T Bell Labs and to various Israeli companies and government Ministries, including Bezeq and the Ministry of Defense, on problems related to Teletraffic Analysis, Reliability issues, Statistics and Optimization. He has published over 100 research papers, mostly in the areas of Queuing Theory, Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems, Reliability and Operations Research, and received grants for joint research projects with European institutes. Professor Yechiali served as the President of TIMS Israeli Chapter during 1976 -1981 and as the President of ORSIS (Operations Research Society of Israel) during 1983 - 1985. He held the position of Chairman of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University during 1981-1983 and during 1996-1999. In 2004 he received the ORSIS LIFE ACHIEVEMENT PRIZE for his excellent scientific achievements and broad activities in Operations Research. Research interests: Queueing Theory and its applications; Performance Evaluation; Optimal control of Polling systems; Telecommunication; Reliability and Operations Research modeling. |
Dr. Daniel YekutieliDaniel Yekutieli received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Tel-Aviv University in 2002. From 2001 to 2003 he was employed as a researcher in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at Tel-Aviv University. He worked on developing statistical tools based on the False Discovery Rate (FDR) for Quantitative Trait Loci analysis, and was supported by the FIRST foundation of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Research interests: Multiple comparisons and FDR methodology; Analysis of large data sets; Analysis of complex genetic data. |
