CV

Academic Appointments

• March 2020 – Present: Associate professor, Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion, Israel.
• October 2014 – February 2020: Assistant professor, Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences (former Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management), Technion, Israel.
• October 2013 – September 2014: Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Göttingen. Host: Prof. D. Russell Luke..
• October 2012 – September 2013: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University. Host: Prof. Marc Teboulle.

Education

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2012.
  Dissertation: Iterative Methods for Solving Optimization Problems.
  Supervisor: Prof. Simeon Reich
• M.Sc. summa cum laude, Mathematics, University of Haifa, 2008.
  Thesis: Resolvents and Applications
  Supervisor: Prof. Dan Butnariu
• B.Sc. magna cum laude, Mathematics, University of Haifa, 2004.

Fields of Interest

• Non-convex optimization problems
• Numerical methods
• Optimization algorithms
• Methods of computing fixed points
• Nonlinear and convex analysis

Honors & Awards

• Excellent Teaching Award, The Technion, 2019.
• Rothblum Award – ORSIS Prize for excellence in research in OR 2019.
• Cooper prize for research excellence, The Technion 2018.
• The 2017 SIAG/Optimization Prize 2017.
• SIAM travel award (SIAM Conference on imaging science) 2014.
• Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship 2013.
• Tel Aviv University postdoctoral fellowship 2012.
• PIMS postdoctoral fellowship 2012 – declined.
• Vivian Konigsberg Award for excellence in teaching, The Technion 2011.
• SIAM travel award (SIAM Conference on optimization) 2011.
• Gutwirth Fellowship – award for outstanding Ph. D student, The Technion 2011.
• Vivian Konigsberg Award for excellence in teaching, The Technion 2010.
• Professor Haim Hanani award for advancement in Ph. D degree, The Technion 2010.
• Wolf prize – award for outstanding master’s student, The University of Haifa 2006.
• Dean’s list for academic achievements in Ms.c., The University of Haifa 2006.

Conference Presentations 

• A Workshop on Optimization and Operator Theory, The Technion, November 15-17, 2021 (online).
• SIAM conference on Optimization, July 20-23, 2021 (online).
• The 64th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS2020), Univerity of New England (Australia), December 8-10, 2020 (online).
• Advances in Nonsmooth Analysis and Applications, Shenzhen (China), December 7-9, 2019.
• 50 years on NAM, Goettingen, October 25-27, 2019.
• The Sixth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Berlin (Germany), August 5-8, 2019.
• The Workshop Games, Dynamics and Optimization 2019 (GDO2019), Cluj (Romania), April 9-11, 2019.
• Workshop on Numerical Algorithms in Nonsmooth Optimization, Vienna (Austria), February 25 – March 1, 2019.
• Workshop on Efficient Operator Splitting Techniques for Complex Systems and Large Scale Data Analysis, Sanya (China), January 14-18, 2019.
• Multi-agent optimization, A DIAG Mini-Workshop, Rome (Italy), December 3, 2018.
• 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Bordeaux (France), July 1-6, 2018.
• Optimization and Discrete Geometry: Theory and Practice, Tel Aviv (Israel), April 24-26, 2018.
• Beyond Convexity: Emerging Challenges in Data Science, Banff International Research Center in Oaxaca (Mexico), October 22-27, 2017. Invited speaker.
• German-Israeli Research Workshop on Optimization, Technion (Israel), October 16-19, 2017. Invited speaker.
• The 11th International Conference on Numerical Optimization and Numerical Linear Algebra, Yinchuan (China), August 8-11, 2017. Invited speaker.
• The Third International Conference on Engineering and Computational Mathematics (ECM), Hong Kong, May 31 – June 2, 2017. Invited speaker.
• 2017 HKBU Workshop on Optimization, Hong Kong, May 30, 2017. Invited speaker.
• SIAM Conference on Optimization, Vancouver (Canada), May 22-25, 2017. Plenary prize talk. 
• 3rd Applied Mathematics Symposium Munster, Shape, Images and Optimization, Munster (Germany), February 28th – March 3rd, 2017. Invited speaker.
• The Fifth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Tokyo, (Japan), August 8-11, 2016.
• Workshop on Optimization in Image Processing, Harvard (USA), June 27-30, 2016. Invited speaker.
• Second Workshop on Optimization for Image and Signal Processing, Paris (France), December 7-9, 2015. Invited speaker.
• 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Pittsburgh (USA), July 12-17, 2015.
• Operations Research Societies Israel (ORSIS) Conference 2015, Haifa (Israel), May 10-11, 2015.
• 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Barcelona (Spain), July 13-18, 2014.
• Fifth International Conference in Optimization Theory and its Applications, Seville (Spain), June 5-7, 2014. Invited speaker.
• SIAM conference on Optimization, San Diego (USA), May 19-22, 2014.
• SIAM conference on Imaging Science, Hong-Kong, May 12-14, 2014.
• The Fourth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Lisbon (Portugal), July 27 – August 1, 2013.
• 11th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Firenze (Italy), June 26-28, 2013.
• The 2013 Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union, University of Haifa (Israel), June 16, 2013.
• Operations Research Societies Israel (ORSIS) Conference 2013, Beer Sheva (Israel), May 19-20, 2013.
• 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2012), Berlin (Germany), August 19-24, 2012.
• International Mini-Conference on Set-Valued Variational Analysis and Optimization with Applications in Finance, Lutherstadt Wittenberg (Germany), August 16-19, 2012 (attending).
• Operations Research Societies Israel (ORSIS) Conference 2012, Jerusalem (Israel), June 3-4, 2012.
• The 2012 Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union, Bar-Ilan University (Israel), May 28, 2012.
• Infinite Products of Operators and Their Applications, The Technion (Israel), May 21-24, 2012.
• 13-th Workshop on Well-posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, Borovets (Bulgaria), September 12-16, 2011.
• 10th International Symposium on Generalized Convexity and Monotonicity, Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), August 22-27, 2011.
• Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA), August 17-19, 2011.
• Operations Research Societies Israel (ORSIS) Conference 2011, Akko (Israel), May 29-30, 2011.
• SIAM conference on optimization, Darmstadt (Germany), May 16-19, 2011.
• Workshop on metric fixed point theory, Almonaster (Huelva) Spain, January 27-30, 2011.
• The second Asian conference on nonlinear analysis and optimization, Phuket (Thailand), September 9-12, 2010.
• Optimization theory and related topics, Technion and University of Haifa, January 11-14, 2010.

Seminar/Colloquium Talks

• Tech Talk, Amazon AWS, December 15, 2021 (online)
• The Felix Klein Autumn School, Kaiserslautern (Germany), September 16-18, 2020 (online).
• Hong Kong University Colloquium, Hong Kong, January 11, 2019.
• Sapienza University of Rome Seminar, Rome (Italy), December 5, 2018.
• Operation Research Seminar, Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences (former Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management), Technion (Israel), April 8, 2013.
• Seminario de Análisis Matemático, The University of Sevilla (Spain), April 30, 2013.
• Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa (Israel), April 23, 2013.
• Colloquium, Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Göttingen (Germany), August 16, 2012.
• OCANA Seminar, The University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna (Canada), February 8, 2012.
• Colloquium, The University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada), February 3, 2012.
• CARMA colloquium, The University of Newcastle, July 22, 2010.

Professional Activities

Organizing Conference/Workshop

• Workshop in Optimization to Celebrate Roman Polyak’s 80th Birthday, Technion, April 3, 2017. (jointly with Simeon Reich and Marc Teboulle).
• Operations Research Conference in Memory of Prof. Uriel G. Rothblum, Technion, January 31, 2017. (jointly with Amir Beck).
• Continuous Optimization: Challenges and Applications (an international workshop celebrating Ronny Ben-Tal’s 70 birthday), The Technion (Israel), September 5-8, 2016. (jointly with Amir Beck and Marc Teboulle).
• 28th European Conference for Operational Research and Management Science, Poznan (Poland), July 3-6, 2016. Organizing the “Convex Optimization” stream.

Appointments

• Associate Editor of the journal ESAIM: Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations.
• Associate Editor of the journal Open access Journal of Mathematical Optimization.

• Associate Editor of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.

Referee for

• Abstract and Applied Analysis
• Applicable Analysis
• Bulletin of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
• Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society
• Communications in Mathematical Analysis
• Computational & Applied Mathematics
• Computational Optimization and Applications
• Computers and Mathematics with Applications
• ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations
• European Journal of Operational Research
• Fixed Point Theory and Applications
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing
• Journal of Global Optimization
• Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications
• Journal of Inequalities and Applications
• Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
• Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
• Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis
• Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
• Journal of Scientific Computing
• Mathematische Nachrichten
• Mathematics of Operations Research
• Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications
• Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems
• Operations Research
• Optimization
• Optimization Letters
• Optimization Methods and Software
• Pattern Recognition Letters
• SIAM Journal on Optimization
• SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences