Professor Yigal Gerchak Department of Industrial Engineering The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv 69978 ISRAEL Phone: +972-3-6405418 Fax: +972-3-6407669 e-mail: ygerchak@eng.tau.ac.il

Research Interests:

Coordination in Decentralized Supply Chains

Operations Management in Production and Service Firms

Cooperative Games, Decision Theory

Opretations Research

Applied Probability and Mathematical Statistics

Current Projects:

Service Capacity Pooling and Cost Sharing

Selecting Degree of Difficulty in Competitions

Inventory Sharing Via Circular Chaining

Production and Coordination with Multiple Retailers and Non-Linear Production Costs

Other Academic Activities:

• Head, Department of Industrial Engineering 2002 - 2004
• Senior Editor Journal of Flexible Service and Manufacturing, 2007-2009
• IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics: Department Editor ("Supply Chains/Production-Inventory Systems") 2001 - 2004, Editorial Board Member 1997 - 2000, Department Editor ("Inventory") 1993 - 1996.
• Editorial Board Member, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 1996 - 2002
• Associate Editor ("Public Policy and Services"), Operations Research, 1995 - 1999
• Associate Editor ("Manufacturing, Operations and Scheduling"), Operations Research 1988 - 1994.
• Associate Editor, Operations Research Letters 1989 - 1993.
• Regular Referee for above journals, as well as Management Science, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics and occasional referee for several other journals.
• Member of Program Organizing committee, 2010 MSOM conference.
• Member of Program Committee, 1996 MSOM Conference.
• Member of Program Committee, 1996 Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems Conference.
• Organized the 1990 Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems Conference at the University of Waterloo.

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