Department of Statistics & Operations Research
School of Mathematical Sciences
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Phone:  +972-3-640.9637, Fax:  +972-3-640.9295, e-mail:  uriy@tauex.tau.ac.il

Home Address:
36 Yehuda Hanassi Street, Tel Aviv 69206, Israel
Phone:  +972-3-641.7939, Fax: +972-3-641.1566, Mobile:  +972-54-427-7770

Date and place of birth:   1937 Israel

Marital status: Married          No. of children:  2

EDUCATION

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Tel Aviv University, School of Mathematical Sciences

• 10/2005 to present:   Professor Emeritus

• 6/1981 to 9/2005:   Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research

• 9/1996 to 8/1999:   Chairman, Department of Statistics & Operations Research

• 1981 to 1983:  Chairman, Department of Statistics and Operations Research

• 1977 to 1980: Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

• 1972 to 1976: Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics

  
  

  
  

  Afeka, Academic College of Engineering

  
  

• 3/2006 to 2/2011:  Founder and Chairman, Department of Industrial Engineering and Managemant

  
  

  
  

  New York University

  
  

  • 1977/78, Fall 1984, Spring 1987, 1991/92, Summers 1979-1999, 2003: Visiting Professor

    
    

  • Summers 1973,1974: Visiting Associate Professor

    
    

  • Sept. 1969 to Aug. 1971: Assistant Professor

  
  

  
  

  Columbia University

  
  

  • Summers 1978, 1987: Visiting Professor

    
    

  • 1967 to 1969: Research Assistant

  
  

  
  

  Technion, Israel

  
  

  • 1964 to 1966: Teaching and Research Assistant

  
  

  
  

  AWARDS

  
  

  ORSIS Award for "Life Achievement" in Operations Research, 2004

  
  

  
  

  BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

  
  

  • 1971 to present:  Consultant to various Israeli companies on Operations Research topics such as queueing systems, scheduling, reliability, health care, urban planning and optimization.

  • Summers 1994, 1995:  Consultant to AT&T Bell Labs.

  • 1974 to 1995:  Consultant to BEZEQ, The Israeli Telecommunication Corp. Typical projects: Planning and optimization of telecommunication networks; Teletraffic analyses; Queueing models; Polling Systems; Reliability design of PABX systems; Statistical Analysis; Capacity expansion; Optimal Routing; Analysis of subscribers' behavior; Scheduling.

    
    

  • 1971 to 1973:  Consultant to "Consulting and Information Institute Ltd.", and to "Institute for Urban Planning". Work involved development and application of Operations Research models for transportation, education, telecommunication, budgeting, investments and urbanization.

    
    

  • Summers 1967,68,69: Operations Research Analyst, IBM World Trade Headquarters, New York. Problems worked on include:  Applying information theory concepts to multi-criteria analysis; Building mathematical models for solving airline crew scheduling problems; Developing statistical procedures for analysis of IBM machines' lifetime.

    
    

  • 1964 to 1966: Consultant to the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture. Work involved development and solution of queueing models; Evaluation of experiments by statistical methods; Applications of linear programming techniques to fertilizing; Solving transportation problems in agriculture.

  
  

  
  

  ACADEMIC RELATED POSITIONS

  
  

  
  
  • 2021 to Present: Member, Israel Council for Higher Education Committee for Professors' Appointments

    
    

  • 1983 to 1985: President - Operations Research Society of Israel

    
    

  • 1976 to 1981: President - TIMS Israeli Chapter

  
  

  
  

  MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  
  1. Operations Research Society of Israel (ORSIS)

  
  2. Operations Research Society of America (ORSA)

  
  3. Israel Statistical Association (ISA)

  
  4. Member, IFIP W7.3 Working Group

  
  

  
  

  GRANTS

  
  

  • 1991 to 1993:  French-Israeli Cooperation in Computer Science ($54,500)

  • 1996 to 1998:  French-Israeli Cooperation on Information Super-Highways (162,000 NIS)

  • 1998 to 2000:  Israeli Ministry of Science, "Stochastic Methods for the Dynamic Assignment Parking Problem" (660,000 NIS)

  • 1998 to 2000:  Israeli Ministry of Science, "Quality of Service in High-Speed Networks" (330,000 NIS)

  • 2001 to 2002:  French-Israeli Cooperation on Information Technology (60,000 FF)

  • 2003 to 2006:  European Union: EuroNGI-Network of Excellence ($195,000)

  • 2016 to 2017: The Israel National Institute for Health Policy (120,000 NIS)

  • 2017 to 2020: Israel Science Foundation (ISF), "A Novel Approach for Efficiency Improvement of Service Systems by Performing and Storing Preliminary Services" (303,000 NIS)

  
  

  
  

  EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

  
  

  • 1987 to 1991:   Associate Editor, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

  • 1994 to 2007:  Member of Editorial Board, European Journal of Operational Research

  • 1998 to 2002:  Board of Editors, Advances in Performance Analysis

  • 2006 to 2021:  Member of Steering Committee, ValueTools Conferences

  • 2016 to 2021:  Co-Editor-in-Chief, Queueing Models and Service Management (QMSM)

  
  

  
  

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