ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) [Netscape]"> <title>Alexander Zadorojniy's homepage </title> </head> <body align=left> <!-- MAIN PICTURE, NAME, ADDRESS --> <table cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2 width=100%><tr> <td rowspan=2 align=center width=200><img src="sasha.jpg" width=190></td> <td colspan=2><h1> <b><font face="Monotype Corsiva" size=+4>Alexander (Sasha) Zadorojniy</font></b></h1></td> </tr><tr><td></td><td> <br><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/dept/services/abo_optimization.html">Business & Systems Optimization</a> <br><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/research.html">IBM Haifa Research Labs</a> <br>Haifa 31905, Israel <!--br><a href="http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/units/electrical/indexe.html">School of Electrical Engineering</a> <br><a href="http://www.tau.ac.il/">Tel-Aviv University</a><br>Ramat-Aviv<br>Tel-Aviv 69978<br>Israel --> <br>email: &#115;&#97;&#115;&#104;&#97;&#32;&#64;&#32;&#101;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#116;&#97;&#117;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#105;&#108; </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr><td colspan=2><br><h2><b><i>My research</i></b></h2></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Optimization Algorithms, Stochastic Control, Markov Decision Processes, Linear Programming, Multi-Objective Optimization</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><br><h2><b><i>Education</i></b></h2></td></tr> <tr><td nowrap valign=top>02/2007  2012 (expected): </td><td><a href="http://www.tau.ac.il/">Tel Aviv University</a>, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv <br>Ph.D. in <a href="http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/">Electrical Engineering</a> <br>Dissertation: <i>Optimization Algorithms for Stochastic Control</i> <br>Focus: <i>Algorithms, Optimization, Communications</i> <br>Research advisors: <a href="http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~guy/">Prof. Guy Even</a> and <a href="http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~boaz/">Prof. Boaz Patt-Shamir</a> <br></td></tr> <tr><td nowrap valign=top>04/2001  08/2004:</td><td><a href="http://www.technion.ac.il/">Technion</a> - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa <br>M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering <br>Thesis: <a href="publications/MScThesis.pdf"><i>Constrained Markov Decision Processes with Application to Wireless Communications</i></a> <br>Focus: <i>Optimization, Communications</i> <br>Research advisor: <a href="http://webee.technion.ac.il/~adam/">Prof. Adam Shwartz</a> <br></td></tr> <tr><td nowrap valign=top>10/1996  04/2001:</td><td><a href="http://www.technion.ac.il/">Technion</a> - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa <br>B.Sc. in <a href="http://webee.technion.ac.il">Electrical Engineering</a> <br>Focus: <i>Communications, Computers, Signals and Image Processing</i> <br>Project: <i>IFAPT and APP Decoder</i> <br></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><br><h2><b><i>Publications and conferences</i></b></h2></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2> <li>A. Zadorojniy, M. Masin, L. Greenberg, O. M. Shir and L. Zeidners, <i>"Algorithms for Finding Maximum Diversity of Design Variables in Multi-Objective Optimization"</i>, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Accepted to CSER, March 2012, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. <br></li> <li>G. Even, Y. Fais, M. Medina, S. Shahar and A. Zadorojniy, <i><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0779">"Real-Time Video Streaming in Multi-hop Wireless Static Ad Hoc Networks"</a></i> <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;7th International Symposium on Algorithms for Sensor Systems, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities (ALGOSENSORS 2011), <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;September 8-9, 2011, Saarbruecken, Germany. <br></li> <li>A. Zadorojniy, G. Even and A. Shwartz, <i><a href="publications/moor-34-04-p0992-1007-2au-copy.pdf"> A Strongly Polynomial Algorithm for Controlled Queues </a></i>, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;INFORMS Conference, November 2010, Austin, Texas, USA (invited paper); <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ORSIS Conference, June 2010, Nir Etzion, Israel (invited paper); <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mathematics of Operations Research, 34(4):992-1007, November 2009.<br></li> <!--li>G. Even and A. Zadorojniy, <i>"A New Pivoting Rule For The Simplex Algorithm"</i>, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The 10th Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Graphs, Combinatorics and Algorithms, May 2010, Haifa, Israel.<br></li--> <li>G. Even and A. Zadorojniy, <i>"Strong Polynomiality of the Gass-Saaty Shadow-Vertex Pivoting Rule for Controlled Random Walks"</i>, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Submitted, Revised December 2011.<br></li> <li>A. Zadorojniy and G. Even, <i><a href="publications/hyperbola2.pdf"> Hyperbolic Behavior Of Occupation Measures Between Neighboring Policies In CMDPs </a></i>, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Accepted to 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2009, Shanghai, China.<br></li> <!--li>A. Zadorojniy, G. Even and A. Shwartz, <i><a href="publications/moor-34-04-p0992-1007-2au-copy.pdf"> A Strongly Polynomial Algorithm for Controlled Queues </a></i>, Mathematics of Operations Research, 34(4):992-1007, November 2009.<br></li--> <li>A. Zadorojniy and A. Shwartz, <i><a href="publications/robustness.pdf">"Robustness of Policies in Constrained Markov Decision Processes"</a></i>, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51(4):635-638, April 2006.<br></li> <li>A. Zadorojniy, F. Aboud and Y. Redl, <i>"CloX  A Novel Methodology for Clock Network Design"</i>, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Design and Test Technology Conference, August 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA.<br></li> <!--br><b>Computational experiments: </b><li>G. Even and A. Zadorojniy, <i><a href="publications/bench.pdf">"Netlib Benchmark Results"</a></i>.</li--> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><br><h2><b><i>Professional Experience</i></b></h2></td></tr> <tr><td nowrap>03/2011  present:</td><td> IBM Haifa Research Labs, Researcher</td></tr> <tr><td nowrap>07/2008  02/2011:</td><td> Tel-Aviv University, Researcher, Algorithm Designer</td></tr> <tr><td nowrap>07/2005  03/2008:</td><td> <a href="http://www.intel.com">Intel</a> Haifa  BUS/MLC, Logic Design Group, Logic Designer</td></tr> <tr><td nowrap>12/2000  07/2005:</td><td> Intel Haifa  Special Circuit Cluster, Clock Network Designer</td></tr> <tr><td nowrap>08/1998  12/2000:</td><td> Intel Haifa  Design Automation (DA) Group, DA Designer</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><br><h2><b><i>Scientific Competition Awards</i></b></h2></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes-Awards/George-Nicholson-Student-Paper-Competition">Finalist</a> (among the best 7 nominations out of 44) of the George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, INFORMS, 2010, International. </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Co-Winner of Mehrez Prize for Excellent Paper of a Graduate Student, ORSIS, 2010, Israel. </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Co-Winner of Weinstein Prize for an Excellence in Studies of a Graduate Student, Tel-Aviv University, 2009, Israel. </td></tr> </table> <h2><b><i>Personal</i></b></h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_sports">Sport Shooting</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_shooting">Trap</a>): <br>ISSF World Cup 2011, Maribor, Slovenia <ul> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/issfchannel#p/c/A762454DC6B2E824/0/HUTQV8Q0xk0">Opening Ceremony (official)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE_r1EsDzng&feature=player_embedded">A Competition - Highlights (official)</a></li> <li><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/rahmael/Slovenia2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCI2C5vXvzJCOzQE&feat=email">A competition (private)</a></li> </ul> Grand Prix Fiocchi World 2011, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=206185209427778">Results</a> <!--ul> <li>2009: Israeli Championship, Olympic Trap Shooting, 2nd place: <a href="http://www.igudkliya.co.il/Shoot/1/34/189.aspx?pass=false&xmlPath=16/Match_15_1064.xml">results</a>, <a href="shooting_2009">photos</a></li> <li>2008: <a href="http://www.cssf-shooting.org/">Cyprus Grand Prix, Nicosia</a>: <a href="http://www.cssf-shooting.org/Results%201/FTRM.pdf">results</a></li> <li>2007: Israeli Championship, Olympic Trap Shooting, 2nd place: <a href="award_2007">photos</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="http://www.britanniagrandprix.co.uk/">Britannia Grand Prix, London</a>: <a href="shooting_trap_2007">photos</a>, <a href="http://www.britanniagrandprix.co.uk/2007_results.htm">results</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="http://www.cssf-shooting.org/">Cyprus Grand Prix, Nicosia</a>: <a href="shooting_trap_2006">photos</a>, <a href="http://lerdueskyting.com/resultater/kypros/cyprusgp2006trapmenn.pdf">results</a></li> </ul--></li> <br> <li>Travelling:<!--ul--> <br> <a href="travelling_2009">Italy (2009)</a>, <a href="travelling_2007">England (2007)</a>, <a href="travelling_2006">Rhodes (2006)</a>, <a href="travelling_2005">USA, Canada (2005)</a>, <a href="travelling_2004">Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong (2004)</a>, <br> <a href="travelling_2003">Thailand (2003)</a>, <a href="travelling_2001">Holland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Slovakia (2001)</a>, <a href="travelling_1999">France, Germany (1999)</a> <!--/ul--></li> </ul> </body> </html>