Department of Statistics and Operations Research
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Date and place of birth: 5.1.1949 Israel
Education
1973 B.Sc. Mathematics and Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1976 M.Sc. Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1981 Ph.D. Statistics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. USA
Academic and professional experiences
1973-1976 Teaching and Research Assistant, Departments of Mathematics
and department of Atmospheric Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1976-1980 Research Assistant, Center of Environmental Studies and Department of Statistics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ,
1980-1981 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Analysis Center, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,
1981-2000 Post Doctoral Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
1985-1987 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,
1993 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
2000-present Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
2006-present Head of The Statistical Consulting Unit, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University
2009-present The Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics
2009-present Member of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics.
2010-present Member of the Sagol School of Neuroscience.
2011 Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley.
2012 Visiting Professor, Stanford University
2012 Recepient of the Israel Prize for Research in Statistics and Economics
2015-present Elected member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Other Selected Activities
1995-2015 Member of the organizing committees of the International Conferences on Multiple Comparisons, Tel Aviv (1996), Berlin (2000), Washington D.C. (2002), Shanghai (2005), Vienna (2008), Bethesda (2012).
1996-1998 Guest Editor
of the Special Issue of the Journal of Statistical planning and Inference on
Multiple Comparisons.
Member of the organizing
committee of the Eastern-Mediterranean Section of the International Biometrics
Society.
2001-2003 Vice president of the Israeli Statistical Association
2003-2006 Head, Department of Statistics and O.R. Tel Aviv University
2004 Organizer of a workshop on Microarray Analysis for the Israeli Statistical Association.
2005- Member of The Scientific Advisory Committee to the Measurement and Evaluation in Education Authority.
2007- Member of the Steering Committee of Rain Enhancement Activities of the Water Authority.
2007-2009 President of the Israeli Statistical Association
2007-2010 Member of National Council for Statistics, and member of its Central Committee
2007-2011 Head of the Statistical Consulting Laboratory, Tel Aviv University.
2011 Organizer of a workshop on Visualization for the Israeli Statistical Association.
2011-2015 Member of the program committee of the EMR-IBS in Tel Aviv, and in Kapadocia
2012 Medallion lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Diego
Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor (2000); Gordon Conference (on Statistics in Chemical Engineering (2001); American NSF regional meeting (2001); Israel Computational Biology Conference (2001). Measuring Behaviour , Leiden (2002); German Chapter of the International Biometric Society (2002); International conference on Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons Reliability and their applications, Chennai (2002). INSERM workshop on Statistical Analysis of Microarrays, Toloun (2003); 7th Purdue Symposium on Statistics (2003); ESF exploratory workshop on microarray data analysis Madrid (2003); “Very large problems in statistics” Amsterdam (2003); Symposium on “Replicability in Behavior Genetics,” New Orleans (2003). A short course on multiple comparisons, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (2004); Institute of Mathematical Statistics Meeting Barcelona (2004); Joint meeting of Australian Statistical Society and International Biometric Society (2004); Japan Statistical Meeting (2004). Israel Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv (2005); Herman Callaert Leadership Award, Belgium (2006); “Assessing Safety” EMR of the International Biometric Society, Eilat (2007); Israel Statistical Association (2007); INSERM workshop, Toloun (2007); A short course on multiple comparisons, Nicosia (2007); Workshop on genomics, Cambridge (2008); Biometrics Session, Joint Statistical Meeting, Denver (2008); Keynote speaker, The 6th international conference on multiple comparisons, Tokyo (2009); The 175th meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, Retrospectively Read Paper, Edinburgh (2009). Temple Biostatistics Day, Philadelphia (2009); European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus (2010); European Epidemiology Society, Firenze (2010); Joint Statistical Meeting, Miami Beach (2011). ); Medallion lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Diego (2012); Korean Statistical Association keynote speaker, Seoul (2012); Statistical Symposium, Calcuta (2012); Public Talk, The 8th international conference on multiple comparisons, Southampton UK (2013). Tutorial on False Discovery Rate, Differential Privacy Conference, Simons Center, UC Berkeley (2013); The replicability problem in Science: it's not the p-values' fault, Joint Statistical Meeting, Boston (2014); Replicability across laboratories in mouse phenotyping, Measuring Behaviour, Wageningen (2014), In Hochberg's Tradition: False Discovery Rate in Clinical Trials, IMPACT III conference, Carey, NC (2014). 'Selective inference in high dimensional data analysis', AIMS on High dimensional data analysis' Stanford (2015). Tukey's two cornerstones of replicability' MCP2015, Hyderabad and Tukey's 100th Birthday, Princeton (2015). The Replicability Crisis In Science: it's not the p-values' fault. Sanger,UK (2016). ‘Significance testing harms replicability only if misused’ (2016) JSM Chicago. ‘Lessons from replication studies about ways to increase replicability. International Biometric society, Victoria (2016. ‘Assessing replicability as a step towards its improvement’ Sackler Colloquium at the National Academy of Science, Washington DC (2017).” Assessing replicability in single laboratory experiments” IBANGS, Madrid (2017). “Selective inference in hierarchical high dimensional data analysis” Conference in honor of Prof. Donoho, Stanford (2017). ”Selective Inference Challenges in High Dimensional Data analysis” Luminy, France(2017). ). “Selective inference in hierarchical high dimensional data analysis” Joint Statistical Meeting, Baltimore (2017).
Previous Grants
1999-2003 Co-Investigator, NIH grant with Ilan Golani (Zoology, TAU) and Greg Elmer (U. of Maryland) (Developing High Throughput Tools for Measuring Behavior)
2000-2004 Principal Investigator on BSF grant with Abramovich, Donoho and Johnstone (False Discovery Rate approach in model selection)
2000-2003 Principal Investigator on FIRST grant from Israeli Science Foundation with Keren Avraham (Human Genetics, TAU) (Genetic mapping and the False Discovery Rate).
2000-2004 Co-Investigator on NIH grant with Elmer G (Univ of Maryland) and Lee, N. (The Genomics Research Institute) on Microarray analysis of morphine’s behavioral effects
2005-2007 Co-Principal Investigator on NIH grant with Cnaani D (Biochemistry, TAU)
2005-2008 Co-Principal Investigator, Israel Science Foundation grant with Ilan Golani (Zoology, TAU) on: Dynamics of free exploration behavior by wild and lab mice.
2006-2008 Co-Investigator on GIF grant with Cnaani D and others (Biochemistry, TAU)
2006-2009 Co-Principal Investigator on Complexity Grant with Golani and Yeshurun (Zoology and Computer Science)
2008-2012 Co-Principal Investigator, Israel Science Foundation grant, with Ilan Golani (Zoology, TAU). “Behavior of Drosophila under Alcohol and Drugs”2009-2010 Co-Principal Investigator, Israel Water Authority grant, with David Steinberg
(Statistics, TAU). “Design and analysis of Israel Rain Enhancement Experiment”.
2010-2013 Co-investigator with Principal Investigator Talma Hendler (Psychiatry) and Nathan Intrator (Computer Sciences) US Department of Defense "Neuro-genomi prospective investigation of the vulnerability to stress".
On-going Grants
2012-2018 Principal Investigator, European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant. “Simple and Practical Statistical Approaches for Replicability Problems in Life Sciences” (50% time).
2013-2018 Co-principal investigator with Mira Marcus-Kalish. European Research Council flagship “Human Brain Project, Medical Informatics Pillar” (10% time)
2013-2016 Co-PI with David Steinberg. Israel Water Authority grant - “Analysing the effect of cloud seeding on rainfall in Israel IV Experiment”
2016-2019 Co-PI with Mitelpunkt , Gorfine, and others. The National Center for Research into Health Policies “Big data analysis of neonatal care unit with implications on length of stay”.