Professor Oded Maimon - Additional Academic Information

Academic and Professional Awards

• Technion, Undergraduate Merit Scholarship for Industrial Engineering, 1972-3.
• Technion, Undergraduate Merit Scholarship for Mechanical Engineering, 1972-3.
• HTI - Hebrew Technical Institute (Technion), Doctoral Scholarship, 1982-1983.
• David Ross Fellowship, Purdue Research Foundation, Purdue University, 1982-1984.
• Award for Outstanding Young Man of America, 1986 National USA Committee for OYMA.
• President's Fellowship for New Faculty, Tel-Aviv University, 4/1987-3/1990.
• Best Paper Award, by ASME International, on the paper “Creative Design Methodology and the SIT Method” (with R. Horowitz), The 9th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, September 1997.
• Best Paper Award, in the Euro-International Symposium on Computational Intelligence, on the paper "Dimension Reduction of High Dimensional Data Sets" ( with Chizi, B., and Shmilovici, A.), June, 2002
• Honorary Societies: Tau Beta Pai - Engineering;
  Alpha Pi Mu - Industrial Engineering;
  Omega Rho - Operations Research.

Academic and Professional Experience

• 7/1973 - 7/1976 Military Service; Israel; Officer, Company Commander.
• 8/1976 - 8/1978 Army Research Center; Israel; Research and Development Engineer.
• 9/1978 - 6/1980 Technion; Haifa, Israel; and the University of Calgary, Canada; Teaching and Research Assistant.
• 7/1980 - 12/1981 Engineer in NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) and HMC (Hoffman Maritime Consultants, New York).
• 1/1982 - 2/1984 Purdue University, School of Industrial Engineering and Computer Integrated Design, Manufacturing, and Automation Center; W. Lafayette, IN; Teaching and Research Assistant.
• 3/1984 - 3/1987 Joint appointments with MIT and DEC: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems (Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Research Scientist. Digital Equipment Corp. - Artificial Intelligence Technology Center - Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Engineering Group; Principal Software Engineer and Project Leader.
• 4/1987 - 2/1990 Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Industrial Engineering; Lecturer and Senior Lecturer.
• 4/1987 – Present: Consultant to Industry: serving as technical consulting and board member (including Chairman) and CTO of software companies, and government offices.
• 3/1990-3/1998 Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Industrial Engineering; Associate Professor.
• 6/1991 - 6/1993 Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University; Chairman.
• 8/1993 - 8/1996 Boston University, College of Engineering, Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering; Visiting Professor.
• 10/1996 -10/2000 Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University; Chairman.
• 4/1998 - Present: Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Industrial Engineering; Full Professor.
• 8/2003 - 4/2004 Banares Hindu University (BHU), Institute of Technology (IT) and Computer Engineering Department, Varanasi, India; Visiting Professor.

Membership in Professional and Honorary Societies

• IIE; IEEE; INFORMS; ACM; SME; ASME

Teaching Experience

• Production Planning and Control
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
• Introduction to Operations Research
• Industrial Robotics
• Automated Design and Manufacturing
• Database Design
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Information Systems Design

• Real-time Scheduling and Activity Control
• Production Systems Analysis
• Advanced Robotics Systems
• Operations Management
• Operations Research
• Concurrent Engineering
• Advanced Data Mining Algorithms
• Computerized Systems Design

Developing and starting new courses

• Industrial Robotics
• Quantitative Methods for Data Analysis in Data Warehouse
• Engineering Information and Communication System
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Process
• Fourth year engineering projects (new topics) for: IE, ME, and EE
• Automated Design and Manufacturing Systems- an integrated theory and laboratory course (a required core course MN345 in BU).

• Advanced Robotics Systems
• Real-time Scheduling and Activity Control
• Concurrent Engineering
• Advanced Data Mining Algorithms

Developing and starting new laboratories

• Robotics Systems Research Laboratory, 1988.
• Robotics Teaching Laboratory, 1989 (moved to ME).
• Robotics Control Laboratory, 1990 (moved to EE).
• Production Planning and CIM Laboratories, 1992. (Now the major lab of the IE Dept., supporting several required and elective courses, projects, and researches activities; was consolidating with the other labs).
• Automated Design and Manufacturing Laboratory, 1995 (at BU, USA)
• Intelligent Engineering Information System Laboratory, 1998.
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics (in two colleges in Israel 2001, 2003).

Editorial Activities

Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 1986-1991.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineering) Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 1987-1991.
• Member of the CASA/SME Technical Council Division (Computer and Automated Systems Association of SME), 1986-1990.
• Member of the Editorial Board of "Maase Hoshev" (in Hebrew), the Journal of the Israeli Society of Information Systems, 1990-1992.
• Reviewer for numerous journals in my areas of research (e.g. OR, IIE Transactions, Management Science, IJPR, ACM, IEEE AC, IEEE SMC, ASME Transactions).
• Served as chairman and on editorial board of many academic and organizational committees of international conferences, and on special assignments, such as chairman (appointed by the Israeli Ministry of Science) of the AFIRST “Factory of the Future” program (scientific cooperation between Israel and France), 1998-2000.

Patents

Research Grants

• Principal Investigator: "Planning and control of electronic assembly systems", DEC Grant for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, 1985.
• Principal Investigator: "Scheduling models for FMS", DEC Grant for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, 1986.
• Principal Investigator: "Multi-robot control", NSF SBIR program, (ISI-8660733) 1986.
• Principal Investigator: "Software integration for FMS control", CASA/SME Technical Council Grant, 1986-1987.
• Principal Investigator: "Analytic methods for discrete events system control with emphasis on robotics systems", Basic Research Grant, Tel-Aviv University, 1987.
• Principal Investigator: VATAT (Israeli planning and funding for universities committee) grant for developing the robotics systems research laboratory, Tel Aviv University, 1987.
• Principal Investigator: Dean of the Faculty of Engineering grant for developing the robotics teaching laboratory, Tel-Aviv University, 1987.
• Principal Investigator: "Economical and technological evaluation of robotics in the Israeli industry", The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development, Tel-Aviv University, 1988.
• Principal Investigator: "Artificial intelligence with mathematical models in manufacturing planning and control", External Research Program, DEC, 1989.
• Principal Investigator: "A methodological approach for evaluating capabilities of visual inspections in quality control", Basic Research Grant, Tel-Aviv University, 1989.
• Principal Investigator: "Combined discrete and continuous models for robotics control", Grant from IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, 1989-1991.
• Investigator: "Natural operation of exoskeleton", Israeli DOD, Research Division, 1991-1992.
• Principal Investigator: "Distributed control models for CIM", University-Industry Grant, 1992-1993.
• Principal Investigator: “Real time scheduling and control of FMS”, Ministry of Science (Israeli NSF), 1994-1997.
• Principal Investigator: “ADMS- Automated Design and Manufacturing System for rapid prototyping”, SME, (in Boston University), 1994-1995.
• Principal Investigator: “Systematic Inventive Thinking for Engineering Design”, Research Center, Ford Motor Company, 1996-1997.
• Principal Investigator: “Quantitative Methods for Analysis of Data Warehouse”, Fleischman Internal Faculty of Engineering Grant, 1997.
• Principal Investigator: “Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking for Engineering Design”, Research Center, Ford Motor Company, 1998-1999.
• Principal Investigator: “Conceptual Engineering Design”, CONSIST (The Consortium for Software Development for Industrial Process), Magnet Program, Israeli Ministry of Commerce and Trade, 1998-2001 (was the founder of the consortium which included 3 universities and 5 leading companies).
• Principal Investigator: “Excellence program for Design and Manufacturing”, Manahr, Israeli Ministry of Defense, 1999-2001.
• Principal Investigator: “Electronic Fab Design and Control”, WFCM (Wafer Fab Cluster Management- The Consortium for Control and Management of Manufacturing Clusters in the Semiconductor Circuit Industry), Magnet Program, Israeli Ministry of Commerce and Trade, 2000-2003. (with E. Khmelnitsky)
• Principal Investigator: (together with a team from Bar-Ilan and Ben-Gurion Universities): "Privacy in Data Mining", Basic Research Grant, Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, 2006.

Graduate Students Supervision

1. Shai Olicker, "A Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Neural Network Design and Training", Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1994.
2. Dan Braha, "Towards Formal General Design Theory", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1995 (First Ph.D. of the department).
3. Vince Huffaker, “Maintaining Consistency in the Design Process”, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University, 1996.
4. Yvgeni Khmelnitsky, "Optimal Flow Control For Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Continuous Setups", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1997.
5. Armin Shmilovitchi, "Analytical Fuzzy Logic Control with FMS Application", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1998.
6. Roni Horowitz, "Necessary Conditions and Methods for Creative Engineering Design", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1999.
7. Mark Last, “Information Theoretic Methods for Quality and Reliability of Enterprise Data”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2000.
8. Avi Herbon, “Modeling of Feedback and Optimal Control in Engineering and Managerial Systems under Uncertainty”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2002. (with Y. Khmelnitsky)
9. Lior Rokach, “Decomposition Theory and Methodology in Data Mining”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2004
10. Barak Chizi, “On Dimensionality Reduction of High Dimensional Data Sets”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2005 (expected).
11. Haim Dahan, “Active Control for Data Mining Models”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (started 2002)
12. Shahar Cohen, "Incremental Dynamic Data Mining", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (started 2003). (with Y. Khmelnitsky)
    (The first 10 Ph.D's of the IE Department at TAU)
    
13. Rafi Richter, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (started 2005).
14. Roni Romano, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (started 11/2005)
15. Abel Browarnik, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (started 11/2005.
16. Tali Rosenwaks, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (started 11/2005).
17. Dieter Schneider Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (started 11/2005).

M.Sc. ( with thesis)

1. Kerry L. Elkins, "Information Flow Between a Workstation Controller and its Robotics Sub-Systems", Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, MIT (with D. Hardt) , 1986.
2. Tali Freed, "Scheduling Methods for the Assembly of PCBs", Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion (with E. Dar-El), 1988.
3. Yechezkel Hacham, "Layout of AGVs in FMS Network", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1989.
4. Alex Kapitanovski, "Toward Automatic Robotics Programming for Mechanical Assembly", Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1990.
5. Mark Last, "Stochastic Discrete Event Control Theory for Robotics Systems", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1991.
6. Arie Dayagi, "Nesting Planning in Computerized Manufacturing Systems", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1991.
7. Eli Profeta, "Energy Analysis and Optimization of Robot Configuration", Interdisciplinary Engineering Department, Tel-Aviv University, 1991.
8. Rafi Brener, "Dispatching Policy of WIP in FMS", Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, 1991.
9. Armin Shmilovitchi, "Routing Algorithms in FMS", Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1992.
10. Michael Feinstein, "Object Recognition with Touch Sensors", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1992.
11. Yoel Sterling, "Scheduling PCBs for Two Machines in Flow-Shop Order Using Johnson Rule and G.T. Techniques", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1992.
12. Shai Rozanes, "Production Design in Variance Technology Environments", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1993.
13. Roni Hirschprong, "Integrating Vision and Tactile Sensing for Object Recognition", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1993.
14. Yoram David, "Determining the Optimal Number of Customers in a Main Queue", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1993.
15. Roni Horowitz, "Distributed Scheduling Methods", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1993.
16. Ronen Zuckerstein, "Genetic Algorithm Based Methods for PCB Assembly Scheduling", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1993.
17. Vineet Seth, “A Neural Network modeling of Optimal Robotic Task”, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University, 1995.
18. Irad Ben-Gal, “A Robust Design System”, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University, 1996.
19. Yavgeni Scheinin, “A Flow Control Scheduling Methods and Cases of Practical Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (with Y. Khmelnitsky), 1998.
20. Israel Ben-David, “Risk Calculation in Project Management”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (with Z. Raz), 2000.
21. Lior Rokach, “Toward Optimal Prediction in Data Mining”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2000.
22. Barak Chizi, "Improving System Investigation by Clustering Methods with DFD and OOA", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2000.
23. Nir Gruner, “Computational Optimization for Data Warehouse Design”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2001.
24. Lior Rabinovitch, “Accelerating Projects by Critical Factors”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, (with B. Ronen), 2001.
25. Gil Zeira, “Detecting Changes in Data Mining Models”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2002.
26. Inbal Lavi, “Nonhomogenous Decomposition in Data Mining”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2002
27. Shahar Cohen, “Population Decomposition in Data Mining”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2002.
28. Avi Weinberger, “Text Mining by Patterns”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2003.
29. Shai Alfandary, “The ISD Model: e-Business over Supply Chains”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2003.
30. Rubi Arbel, “Data Mining Methodology for Multiple Data Sets”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2003.
31. Ilan Edel, “Tuning of Data Mining Algorithms”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2003
32. Anat Okon, “Hierarchical Concept Decomposition in Data Mining”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2003.
33. Marita Ben-Arie, “Delta/Epsilon Analysis for Data Mining Models”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, (with M. Last), 2003.
34. Omri Arad, “Decomposition of Regression Models”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2003.
35. Rafi Richter, “Structured Creativity for Management Issues”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, (with S. Kreitler), 2003
36. Gal Inbar, “Innovation in Management and Engineering Processes”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (with S. Kreitler), 2003
37. Ofer Elgad, "Data Mining with Time Series", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2003.
38. Lital Schwartz-Keshet, “Space Decomposition in Data Mining”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 2004.
39. Amir Zinreich, “Transferring Knowledge via Graph Representation”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (with O. Shai), 2005
40. Sarit Rosenberg, “Analysis of Workers Satisfaction Factors”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (with S. Kreitler and I. Ben-Gal), 2005
41. Edo Pri-ness, “Information Theory Clustering for Gene Research”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (with I. Ben-Gal), 2005
42. Tsila ben Moshe, “Data Mining for Text Understanding”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.
43. Nathali Perlman, "Active Data Mining", Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.

M.Sc. (with projects)

1. Roni Romano, “Comparison between Neural Network and Expert System in a Problem of Assigning Products to a Production Line”, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1990. (With M. Furst)
2. David Hallel, “A Natural Language Controlled Robotic System”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1996.
3. Y. Eilam, “Manufacturing Process Planning for a Car Side Panel Assembly”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 1998.
   Since then there were many students that I supervised for M. Sc. final projects in the Industrial Engineering Department, at Tel Aviv University, including:
   
4. Roy Mashal, Automating system requirement generation, 1999.
5. Gil Shapira, Statistical methods combined with data mining, 1999.
6. Avi Elazari, KDD as a Marketing Tool, 1999.
7. Moti Simon, Activity control of development project, 2000.
8. Moshe Barzilai, Design of data warehouse for department store, 2000.
9. E. Levi, QFD for software development, 2001.
10. E. Shitrit, Methodology for multi project control, 2001.
11. E. David, IFN augmented by regression, 2001.
12. Einat Minkov, Stability of decision trees models, 2001.
13. Amir Angel, Concepts of agent architecture systems, 2001.
14. Nathan Rosenblatt, Methodology for object-oriented database, 2002.
15. Guy Rinat, KDD process for detection of fraud maintenance report, 2002.
16. Michael Mizrahi, Measuring the effect of availability of medical information in the Internet, with S. Kreitler, 2002.
17. Gil Rosen, Software agents’ architecture for the biotech sector, 2002.
18. E. Koren, Knowledge management process for new products in industrial company, 2002.
19. E. Paran, Methodology for intranet organizational knowledge contents, 2003.
20. Yosi Ben Joya, Feature Selection Methods for Data Mining, 2003.
21. Nir Peikovsky, Methodology for Text Modeling, 2003.
22. Jason Rosen, Improving PDM process.
23. Avi Rabinovitch, Medical Data Mining.
24. Hadas Padan, Internet II Modeling.
25. Iddo Segal, Decomposition Methods for Reinforcement Learning.
26. Michal Lisauer, Coordinated Learning in Reinforcement Learning.

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