Shimrit Shtern

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.