INBAL YAHAV

 

Ph.D. Student

Operations Management/ Management Science

Robert H. Smith School of Business

University of Maryland

College Park , MD 20742-1815

Phone (301)-405-9572

Email: iyahav@rhsmith.umd.edu

Homepage: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/phd/inbal/

 

RESEARCH

Data analysis: data modeling, data prediction, anomaly detection

Revenue management: auction based pricing, admission control systems, price reference effects

Grid environment: resource allocation under economic models

 

Papers in Conference Proceedings:

Yiwei Chen, Namrata U. Cornick, Andy Hall, Ritvik Sahajpal, John Silberholz, Inbal Yahav and Bruce Golden. Comparison of Heuristics for Solving the Gmlst Problem . In Telecommunications Modeling, Policy, and Technology, vol 44, pp 191-217. Link

 

Inbal Yahav, Louiqa Raschid and Henrique Andrade. Bid Based Scheduler with Backfilling for a Multiprocessor System. In proceedingsof the International Center for Electronic Commerce ( ICEC), 2007. Link Bib

 

Inbal Yahav and Galit Shmueli. Algorithm Combination for Improved Performance in Biosurveillance Systems. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4506 ("Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance"), Proceedings of the second NSFWorkshop on BioSurvelleillance ,  2007, pp 91-102.  Link Bib

 

Inbal Yahav, Avigdor Gal and Nathan Larson. Bid-Based Approach for Pricing Web Service. In p roceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2006). Montpellier, France, Nov 1 - Nov 3, 2006, pp 360-376. Link Bib

 

 

Work In Progress:

Simulating Multivariate Syndromic Data and Outbreaks. With Galit Shmueli and Thomas Lotze (currently appear in SSRN).

 

Directionally-Sensitive Multivariate Control Charts with an Application to Biosurveillance. With Galit Shmueli.

 

An Elegant Method For Generating Multivariate Poisson Random Variables. With Galit Shmueli (currently appear in arXiv)

 

Service Differentiation: Analysis of the Shared Computational Grid. With Louiqa Raschid and Itir Karaesmen.

 

On the Existence of E-Loyalty Networks in eBay Auctions and Their Structure. With Wolfgang Jank and Daniel Malter.

 

Competing Auctioneers: First and Second Price Mechanisms. With Ali Pilehvar, Kislaya Prasad and Wedad Elmaghraby.

 

 

Conference Presentation:

On the Existence of E-Loyalty Networks in eBay Auctions and Their Structure.  Symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research Call for Papers (SCECR), Manhattan, NY, May 2008.

 

On the Existence of E-Loyalty Networks in eBay Auctions and Their Structure. Informs Telecom, College Park, MD, March 2008.

 

Learning From Experience in Online Auctions. Informs annual meating, Seattle, WA, November 2007.

 

Bid Based Scheduler with Backfilling for a Multiprocessor System.International Center of Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Minneapolis, MN, August 2007.

 

Combination for Improved Performance in Biosurveillance Systems. NSF Workshop on BioSurvelleillance Systems and Case Studies,  New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007.

 

 

Invited Talks:

Evaluating Directionally-Sensitive Multivariate Control Charts with an Application to Biosurveillance. Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Denver, CO, May 2008.

 

On Detectind Disease Outbreaks: Univariate and Multivariate Monitoring. Informs annual meating, Seatlle, WA, November 2007. slides

 

Biosurveillance and Anomaly Detection. Technion - Israel Insitute of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering, Haifa, Israel, December 2006.

 

 

ACADEMIC DEGREES

2006-present

PhD candidate in Operations Management/ Management Science,  R. H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park.

2005-2006

M.Sc in Industrial Engineering and Management, summa cum laude, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Thesis topic: “Bid-Based Online Scheduling of Unit Length Tasks with Hard Deadlines”. Link

2000-2004

B.Sc. in Computer Science, Information Systems Analysis, cum laude, Technion -   Israel Institute of Technology.

 

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

2007

Saul Gass Fellowship for AY 2007-2008

2004

Honor of excellence in undergraduate studies, Dean Foundation, Faculty of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

2000-2004

Honor of excellence in undergraduate studies, President Foundation, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

Academic Experience

2007

Department of Decision & Information Technologies, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University

of  Maryland, College Park, MD:

Applied Multivariate Analysis II (BMGT883, TA)

2003-2006

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology:

Introduction to System Programming (094220 ,TA)

Database Management (094240, TA in charge)

Design and Implementation (094221, TA)

2005

Research at the University of Maryland, College Park , with Prof. Louiqa Raschid and Dr. Nathan Larson.

 

Work Experience

2002-2005

IT department, programmer. Elbit Ltd.

2000-2001

DBA and consultant, Gilon Ltd.

 

Military Service

Military Rank:            Lieutenant

Job definition:

1.      Projects initiation

2.      Tools research (OLAP, Data Mining)

3.      Courses lecturer

 

1999-2000

Head of Information Systems department.

1998-1999

Officer in the Information Systems department.