Contact Info:
Shimrit Shtern
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences
Technion City, Haifa 32000
Israel
Office: Bloomfield 409
Tel: +972-4-8294437
Fax: +972-4-8295688
Email: shimrits at technion.ac.il
News:
- New talks on my Talks page:
- My ORSISCast interview about Optimization and Operations Research Hebrew audio
- My talk on Smooth Uncertainty Sets as part of the Robust Optimization Webinar Video.
- I am looking for graduate students that are interested in theory and application of optimization under uncertainty and data-driven optimization. Please contact me for more details.
- “What do you want to be when you grow up” – a 2021 Technion online event I participated in discussing the opportunities and challenges for doing a post-doc abroad for Israeli PhDs. I talk about my experience (44:30). Event link.
About me:
I am an Assistant Professor in Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences (formely The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Part of the optimization laboratory in the faculty.
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.
A video about my research: (see also Hebrew version)
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.