YOAV BENJAMINI
Born on 5.1.1949 in Israel
Married to Yael and father to Yair Yuval and Noa
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 (Emeritus since 2019.) 2006-2016 Head of The Statistical Consulting Unit, Department of Statistics and
Operations Research, Tel Aviv University. 2011-2012 Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley and Stanford
University. 2012-present Member of the Edmond J. Safra center for Bioinformatics, Tel Aviv
University 2014-present Member of the Sagol School for Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University 2017 Visiting Professor, Columbia University. 2020-present Member of the Tel Aviv Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Prizes and Honours 2009-2019 The Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics. 2012 Recipient of the Israel Prize for Research in Statistics and Economics. 2012 Medallion lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Diego 2015 Elected member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 2019 Recipient of the Karl Pearson Prize of the International Statistical Institute. 2019 Reitz Lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Colorado. 2020 Elected International Member of the US National Academy of Science. Other Selected Activities
1995-2015 Member of the organizing committees of the International Conferences on Multiple Comparisons, Tel Aviv (1996), Berlin (2000), Washington D.C. (2002), Shanghai (2005), Vienna (2008), Bethesda (2012), India (2015).
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, the Eastern-Mediterranean Section of the International Biometrics Society.
2001-2003 Vice president of the Israeli Statistical Association
2003-2006 Head, Department of Statistics and O.R. Tel Aviv University
2005- Member of The Scientific Advisory Committee to the Measurement and Evaluation in Education Authority.
2007-2021 Member, Steering Committee of Rain Enhancement Activities, the Water Authority.
2007-2009 President of the Israeli Statistical Association.
2007-present Member of National Council for Statistics (Member of its Central Committee 2007-2010.)
2007-2011 Head of the Statistical Consulting Laboratory, Tel Aviv University.
2011-2015 Member of the program committee of the EMR-IBS in Tel Aviv, and in Kapadocia.
2019-2021 President of the Eastern-Mediterranean Region of the International Biometrics Society.
2018-2021 Chair, Data Science Steering Committee, for the planning and budgeting committee of higher education in Israel.
2020-2021 Member of the ASA President’s task force on Statistical Significance and Replicability.
2020-2021 Member, The Israel National Academy of Science committee on ‘Teaching Data Science across the university’.
2022-present Member of the steering committee of The Colton Centre for Autoimmune diseases at Tel Aviv University.
2023-2024 Leader of Young Scientists Forum of the Israeli Academy of Sciences on ‘Impact of Generative AI on research in the social sciences and humanities’
Notable Grants
2000-2003 Principal Investigator on FIRST grant from Israeli Science Foundation on
Genetic mapping and the False Discovery Rate, with Avraham. 2012-2018 Principal Investigator, European Research Council Advanced Investigator
Grant. “Simple and Practical Statistical Approaches for Replicability Problems in
Life Sciences”. 2013-2018 European Research Council Flagship “Human Brain Project, Medical
Informatics Pillar”. Co-principal investigator with Marcus-Kalish. 2017-2020 BSF-NIH grant on “Computational approaches to enhance replicability in
mouse phenotyping” Co-principal investigator with Gozes, Golani, Chesler
and Bogue. (other NIH, ISF and BSF grants are not listed)
Department of Statistics and
Operations Research
Tel Aviv University
ybenja@tauex.tau.ac.il