Shimrit Shtern
Assistant Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Between 2015-2017 I was an instructor and post-doctoral associate at the ORC at MIT under the supervision of Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas.
I received my Ph.D. from the Technion in 2015. Thesis on “Robust Tracking via Semidefinite Programming and Noncovex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming”, with advisor Prof. Aharon Ben-Tal
I received my M.Sc. in Operations Research and System Analysis in 2008 and my B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management in 2002, both from Technion.
Research Interests:
- Robust and adaptive optimization.
- Data-driven optimization.
- Algorithms for nonconvex and mixed-integer optimization.
- Nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization theory and algorithms.
- First order and primal-dual methods.
- Semidefinite programming.
- Optimization applications in: inventory systems, estimation and control, statistics and healthcare.
Education
- Ph.D. in Operations Research, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, 2015. Thesis on “Robust Tracking via Semidefinite Programming and Noncovex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming”, Advisor: Prof. Aharon Ben-Tal .
- M.Sc. in Operations Research and System Analysis, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Graduated summa cum laude 2008. Thesis on “Multi-Echelon Robust Supply-Chain Control”;
- Advisors: Prof. Boaz Golany and Prof. Aharon Ben-Tal .
- B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Graduated summa cum laude 2002.
Honors & Awards:
- The Nancy and Steven Grand Career Advancement Chair Fellow, Technion 2018-2021.
- Honorable mention for the 2015 INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize INFORMS announcement. Pic.
- Rubinstein travel scholarship – for traveling to ISMP2015, in memory of Prof. Reuven Rubinstein, IE&M Faculty, Technion 2015.
- Excellence Scholarship – IE&M Faculty, Technion 2014.
- Jacobs fellowship for excellence – awarded to outstanding graduate students, The Technion 2014.
- TMIP (Technion MIT Internship Program) Scholarship, The Technion 2013.
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