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YOAV BENJAMINI

Department of Statistics and Operations Research

School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University

Date and place of birth: 5.1.49  Israel


Education

1973 B.Sc.,             Mathematics and Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

1976 M.Sc.,             Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

1981 Ph.D.,             Statistics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. USA


Academic and professional experiences

1973-1976       Teaching and Research Assistant, Departments of Mathematics

and department of Atmospheric Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1976-1980       Research Assistant, Center of Environmental Studies and Department of  Statistics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ,

1980-1981       Research Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Analysis Center, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,

1981-2000       Post Doctoral Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv

University

1985-1987       Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,

1993                Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

2000-present    Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University


Other Selected Activities


1995-2002       Member of the organizing committees of the International Conferences on Multiple Comparisons, Tel Aviv (1996), Berlin (2000),  Bethesda (2002), Shanjai (2005),

1996-1998       Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Statistical planning and Inference on Multiple Comparisons.

1999-2001        Member of the organizing committee of the Eastern-Mediterranean Section of the International Biometrics Society.

2001-2003                   Vice president of the Israeli Statistical Association

2003-present     Chairman, Department of Statistics and O.R. Tel Aviv University


Invited Talks at Conferences in last 5 years

Banbury  Center,  Cold Spring Harbor  (2000) Gordon Conference (on Statistics in Chemical Engineering (2001), American NSF regional meeting (2001), Israel Computational Biology Conference (2001), Measuring Behaviour (2002), Leiden (2002), German Chapter of the International Biometric Society  (2002), International  conference on Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons Reliability and their applications, Chennai (2002),  INSERM workshop on Statistical Analysis of Microarrays, Toloun (2003). 7th Purdue Symposium on Statistics (2003), ESF exploratory workshop on  microarray data analysis Madrid (2003), “Very large problems in statistics” Amsterdam (2003), Symposium on “Replicability in Behavior Genetics,” New Orleans (2003). A short course on multiple comparisons, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (2004), Institute of Mathematical Statistics Meeting Barcelona (2004), Joint meeting of Australian Statistical Society and International Biometric Society (2004). Japan Statistical Meeting (2004), Israel Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv (2005), Gordon Conference on Statistical Genetics and Genomics, Ventura, (2005), International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures, Shanghai (2005).

List of publications


Grants

1999-2003       Co-Investigator, NIH grant with Ilan Golani (Zoology, TAU) and Greg Elmer (U. of Maryland) (Developing High Throughput Tools for Measuring Behavior)

2000-2004       Principal Investigator on BSF grant with Abramovich Donoho and Johnstone (False Discovery Rate approach in model selection)

2000-2003       Principal Investigator on FIRST grant from Israeli Science Foundation with Keren Avraham (Human Genetics, TAU) (Genetic mapping and the False Discovery Rate).


2003-2006       Co-Investigator on US National Institute of Health grant with Elmer G (Univ of Maryland) and Lee, N.   (The Genomics Research Institute) on: Microarray analysis of morphine’s behavioral effects. This research combines the study of gene expression levels using microarrays, in different regions of brain of mice, with the study of tolerance to morphine administration. In particular the study uses behavioral differences between strains as a screening device for genes that are correlated with tolerance.

2005-2007       Co-Principal Investigator on US National Cancer Institute grant with Cnaani D  (Biochemistry, TAU)

2005-2008       Co-Principal Investigator, Israel Science Foundation grant with Ilan Golani (Zoology, TAU) on:  Dynamics of free exploration behavior by wild and lab mice. The focus of the research is the investigation of the exploration behavior of mice, being exposed repeatedly - at their will - to the same large environment. The experiment involves the development of statistical methods of analysis of extremely large data sets, of motion records over 3 days, and their use to compare inbred strains of mice.

2006-2008       Co-Principal Investigator on German Israeli fund grant with Cnaani D (Biochemistry, TAU)   on: Focusing on hormone-independent breast cancer