Short CV | Shimrit Shtern

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.

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.

2019 – MIT Operations Research Center Best Student Paper Award for Bradley Sturt for our work D. Bertsimas, S. Shtern, B. Sturt, “A data-driven approach to multi-stage linear optimization”, 2018, pic.
2019 – Eyal Gur – 3rd Place in IE&M poster contest for our work E. Gur, S. Sabach, S. Shtern, “A globally convergent approach to the wireless sensor localization problem”.

BIRS Workshop on Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty,
Banff (AB, Canada), January 2019. Video.
One World Optimization Seminar. “First-Order Algorithms for Simple Convex Bi-Level Problems”. February 2022. Video.

Invited session organizer:

ORSIS (Israeli OR society) annual conference, 2023, Tel-Aviv, Sessions: Continuous optimization, Naor (keynote) session.
ORSIS (Israeli OR society) annual conference, 2019, Shfaiim, Sessions: Continuous optimization, Naor (keynote) session.
ICCOPT (International Conference on Continuous Optimization), 2019, Berlin, Session: New advances in Robust Optimization.
ICCOPT (International Conference on Continuous Optimization), 2022, Bethlehem, Session: Optimization Under Uncertainty

Cluster/Stream Organizer

ORSIS (Israeli OR society) annual conference, 2018, Be’er Seva, Cluster: Continuous optimization.
IFORS (International Federation of Operations Research), 2020, Seoul, Stream: Robust and Data-Driven Optimization (canceled due to COVID-19).
SIOPT (SIAM Optimization) 2020, Hong-Kong, Mini-symposium co-organizer, Mini-symposium: Recent advances in robust optimization (canceled due to COVID-19).
SIOPT (SIAM Optimization) 2021, WA, USA, Mini-symposium co-organizer, Mini-symposium: Recent advances in optimization under uncertainty.

Organizing committee:

Head of organizing committee: ORSIS, Aug 2021, Haifa (Israel).
Co-organizer of workshop on “Optimization in the Second Level” on bilevel and robust optimization and the connections between them, The Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM), Marseille, France, April 2-5, 2024. https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/3031.html
Program Committee, ICCOPT (International Conference on Continuous Optimization), 2025.

Editorial board: Guest Editor for Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization, special issue on “Optimization in the Second Level” on bilevel and robust optimization and the connections between them. Call for submissions.
Referee in peer reviewed journal: Management Science, Operations Research, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS journal on Optimization, Computational Optimization and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IISE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Grant review: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) VENI grant referee 2020