CURRICULUM VITEA
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EDUCATION

1992-1996    B.Sc.,
Mathematics
McGill University
Date of award: 1996
1996-1998    M.Sc.,
Biostatistics
University of Washington
Date of award: 1998
2002-2007    Ph.D.,
Statistics
Tel-Aviv University
Date of award: 2008
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: Statistical issues related to fMRI experiments
Name of Supervisor: Professor Yoav Benjamini

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1997-1998
Research Assistant of Professor Peter Guttorp and Professor Paul Sampson, National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment, University of Washington
1998-1999
Statistical consultant with the Statistics Consulting Laboratory, Industrial engineering and management faculty, Technion
1999-2000
Research Assistant of Professor Nahum Kiryati, Electrical Engineering-Systems, Tel-Aviv University
2000-2002
Software Engineer, DSP group, Comverse
2002-2007
Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University
2007-2009
Mark O. Winkelman Distinguished Scholar in Residence Visiting Lecturer of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania
2009-2011
Senior Lecturer, Industrial engineering and management faculty, Technion
2011-present
Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

August 2006
Lectured at the Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association on "False Discovery Rates for Spatial Signals"
May 2007
Lectured at the Israeli Statistical Association Annual Meeting on "Screening for Partial Conjunction Hypotheses"
July 2008
Lectured at the 7th World Congress in Probability and Statistics on "Testing Many Families of Hypotheses using Partial Conjunctions and the FDR"
July 2008
Lectured at the IPAM/CCB Summer School Program on "Advances in FDR for fMRI"
October 2008
Lectured at Temple university on "Meta-analysis using partial conjunction hypotheses"
April 2009
Lectured at Johns Hopkins university on "Gene set analysis of observational microarray studies"
August 2010
Lectured at the 28th European Meeting of Statisticians on "Replicability analysis, with application to genome-wide association studies"
December 2011
Lectured at the special meeting on Clinical Trials and Clinical Research on "False discovery rate controlling procedures for discrete tests"
May 2012
Lectured at the Israeli Statistical Association Annual Meeting on "A consistent multivariate test of association based on ranks of distances"
July 2012
Lectured at the Broad Institute and at Harvard University on "Discovering associations that replicate from a primary study of high dimension to a follow-up study"
April 2013
Pre-conference course at the 7th Meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Region International Biometric Society (EMR-IBS) on ``Using FDR in practice: where, why and how'', with Yoav Benjamini and Daniel Yekutieli
April 2013
Lectured at the 7th Meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Region International Biometric Society (EMR-IBS) on ``Replicability analysis for genome-wide association studies''
July 2013
Lectured at the 8th International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures (MCP) on ``Replicability analysis for genome-wide association studies'''

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

1992 - 1996
Dean's Honour List, McGill University
2004
Excellency in Doctoral studies, Tel-Aviv University
2005
The Alix de Rothschild Fellowship Scholarshop, Tel-Aviv University
2010-2011
The Allon Fellowship, Technion
2010-2011
Landau Fellowship of the Taub Foundation, Technion

RESEARCH GRANTS

2009-2011
U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) grant No. 2008049 for 60000$, Principal Investigator (PI)
2010-2013
Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant no. 2012896 for 327000NIS, Principal Investigator (PI)